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...ourselves enlightened have here only the St. Paul's Society, the Society of Christian Brothren, and the Y X. The first and foremost need in Cambridge is some association representing the other side of this morality question. We incline altogether too much in one direction; we are becoming too staid, too learned. Some society which can be called `The Harvard Society for the Propagation of Vice,' or `The Harvard Society for the Suppression of Virtue in Undergraduates,' ought to be established before we become too wedded to our rut. I should recommend that the active members of this society should...
...staid person is the easiest to shock. What can shock New England is hardly considered worth mentioning in Central America...
...dispersed, for the course of the Conservatives is well fixed by precedent and platform. Uncertainty of tenure is gone, for no fresh issues seem likely to lower on the clear sky of English politics. Altogether, Parliament has given up that gambling spirit of a few months ago for a staid and steady gait upon an unadventurous road...
...World's Work, the Century, the staid Atlantic Monthly...
...open confession of his dissolute youth. "I was deep in sin, loving sin, following sin and living for sin . . .", and all on account of articles in magazines. Dr. Straton averred that religion had redeemed him, but that such articles continue. He particularized The World's Work, The Century, the staid Atlantic Monthly as prints that are putting "into the literary and intellectual pot enough poison from their wild gourds to utterly destroy the people...