Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hooton trades intellectual punches with social scientists, especially with extreme behavorists among them, who seem to think that one human being would behave as well as another if their environments were equal. He contends that since feeble-mindedness can be inherited, so too can feeble-morality. One of his favorite phrases is "moral imbecility...
...William James Camp will exemplify the philosophy of the man after whom it is named, following his famous idea that the necessity in modern civilization is to provide young men with a "moral equivalent for war." This philosophical purpose is constantly kept before the group by Eugene Rosenstock-Heussy, professor of social philosophy at Dartmouth, who is directing the campaign, aided by the Harvard men and several Dartmouth graduates...
Daniel Mulvey of the New Haven Register: "There's no such thing as moral victory in football, but if ever a team deserved credit in defeat it was Yale. The final score was wide enough by scoreboard measurement but far from the total the hard-driving Cantabs hoped to roll...
...entrance examination would consist of having hundreds of beautiful chorus girls, scantily clothed, lounging around the Yard, beside tables of delectable edibles. Any prospective student who possessed the moral character to withstand the seductive charms of both the women and food for three days would then be eligible to attend the Sorokin Academy; provided that he was also a mental genius...
During this period the student would receive very intensive intellectual study, in addition to the moral discipline. On his graduation from this college, the student would be an educated...