Word: morall
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...last trump, and sits in judgment upon the Harvard student. We had expected light weight, but were surprised at total depravity. The Harvard student is reduced to a pygmy in the presence of the heroic figure that impersonates with that author the sublimed and etherealized student. Mental indifference and moral baseness furnish the lighter portions of the picture, for which fine clothes and cigarettes afford a sombre background. We recognize the tenderness with which he has touched off our little weaknesses as flowing from that culture which is most "sympathetic with every mood, passion, and failing in all ages...
...often used for laziness in very much the same way as, in the circles of outer darkness, "financial irregularity" is used for fraud. This indifference - to keep the more general term - is usually supposed to result from a precocious and unerring insight into the realities of things, and a moral and intellectual nature of too high a "tone" to take any interest in the vulgar and short-sighted struggles of the external world. The Harvard student is popularly supposed to be a handsome, well-dressed, and particularly self-indulgent Fakir. Like Lady Teazle, I admit all the rest...
...troubles our author, the College rubs its sleepy eyes, stirs its sluggish blood, and sends eleven men to kick all Canada into the ocean. If enthusiasm is to be judged by the projects started, the Athletic Association and the new club system will both serve to point a significant moral, and the class and various small societies born in the last four years testify to little stagnation in the social circulation...
...said to have failed from want of news. But I conceive that it must have failed from other reasons. The good deeds of life are ordinarily to be taken for granted, and if of an extraordinary nature, become the basis of poetry or serve to illustrate a moral code. The positive method is the method of literature. It clothes the good in forms of beauty, and enlists the aesthetic faculty on the side of the true. The newspaper is the doctor rather than the sculptor, and must sternly set itself to dissect, amputate, and prune away the evils of society...
There was one idea contained in the letter which struck me as being particularly valuable and worthy of note, and that was to have contests in some useful and honest work between students. Looking from both a pecuniary and moral point of view, how much better it would be for Harvard to give up her boating and athletic sports, which not only involve great expenditure of money, but also foster vice by creating in students a desire for betting, and devote a part of the money hither-to spent on these to the purchase of agricultural implements and the formation...