Word: morall
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...limited to the flowers that grew in the Yard, the goodies, and other kindred subjects. But after this breathing-place, we shall come again to an arid waste on the subject of college studies, the choice of electives, or, if the author be particularly happy, a discourse on the moral indications to be deduced from ulsters or cigarettes, with a playful allusion or mournful dirge over "impure thoughts." On the whole, I imagine one of the chief subjects of interest to the persons who wrote such a paper - for the persons who would read...
...enlivening as the old plank-walk appeals; all the discussions intended to prove that a man who wears a clean shirt insults a man who does not, or (and to the latter opinion I rather incline) vice versa. We had read, too, of the woful condition of college morals and college men, who commit the heinous sin of wearing ulsters and smoking cigarettes, and whose moral character, as might be expected from an exterior so intensely vulgar, is flashy in the extreme, being chiefly made up of "impure thoughts," on what subjects we are not informed...
...students. He also considered, as in the English civil service, not only the learning of the candidate, but his character and antecedents, should be inquired into. This of course means that every person presenting himself to the bar for examination be required to bring a certificate of good moral character...
...moral code of the mound-builders seems to have been founded upon the laws of Munnee and Boshor, and it is very curious to notice its radical difference from any system known to European civilization. The fundamental rule was, "Let thy thoughts and thy purposes be hidden from the world"; and based upon this were many others, such as, "Glorify thyself, and the world shall glorify thee"; "Keep thine eye open, thy hand ready, and thy mouth shut"; "Revile no man before his face, neither speak ill of him that is more powerful than thyself"; "Bow down before the great...
...students of the University of Pennsylvania, inspired by the example of Moody and Sankey, started a revival not long ago. Somebody having questioned the desirableness of college prayer-meetings, a writer in the University Magazine comes forward to defend them. He thinks that moral and intellectual improvement should walk hand in hand, and that without prayer-meetings intellect will run away from morals, in which case disaster will of course follow. In proof of this he alleges the following startling example...