Word: morall
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...book has been placed at Leavitt & Peirce's for the signatures of those men who will accompany the nine to New Haven on the nineteenth. Every man in the university who can by any possibility make the trip, ought to feel in duty bound to do so. Moral support at Yale has become a very necessary thing of late years...
...convince the gentleman that if tutors have the right to exist, and if they have a right to use the United States mail, or the columns of a daily paper, it matters little how they advertise themselves; and no reasoning man will deny that they have a legal and moral right to do this, and to advertise their trade in any way they see fit; - the taste of their modus operandi, must necessarily be left to them...
...moral courage has been attacked. If the attack is justifiable, it seems strange that the faculty should have made a unanimous bona-fide declaration of trust in us. As to our complaint of officiousness, this is a free country If anybody without due authority from the United States, the state, the city, the faculty, or the students, assumes the right to control us, I think that to most people he would seem officious. And now I will try to answer the last charge against us, - that we are afraid of responsibility...
...question, "ought the faculty to treat undergraduates as boys or men?" be settled, for many years to come, by a few irresponsible larkers acting for their own personal amusement now. I must confess that the weak point of the Harvard character seems to me to be a lack of moral courage in the deeper affairs of life. An individual who comes here full of it, finds himself in a non-conducting medium. His vibrations die away like the sound of a bell in an air pump. I have heard the older men who succeeded in mitigating the uproar...
...government are admissable, there seems no more place for two school systems in this country than for two forms of government. Some good reason should exist for a double school system such as the country now possesses. The reason cannot be that the public school is deficient in moral or mental training, for if a tree is to be judged by its fruit, the school system of the state suffers nothing by contrast with the system of any church...