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[45] The sentences quoted are taken from the Report of this committee,
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[46] See the articles of J. W. Hudson and others in the Bibliography.
[47] See Bibliography.
[48] See Professor Overstreet's Discussion mentioned in the Bibliography.
XV
THE TEACHING OF ETHICS
=Interest in the study of ethics determined by the aim of instruction=
Nowhere does academic tediousness work a more dire mischief than in
the teaching of ethics. It is bad to have students forever shun the
best books because of poor instruction in literature; the damage is
worse when it is the subject of moral obligation which they associate
with only the duller hours of their college life. Not that the aim of
a course in ethics is to afford a number of entertaining periods. The
object rather is to help our studen
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