“It is the opinion of those who remember Dr. Taeusch’s course on ethics,”
as one observer noted many years later, “that it was unsuccessful because
it was perceived as ‘Sunday School talk.’ Indeed, that effort and another
in the middle Thirties appear to have set back the desire to tackle the
subject at all.”
The question remained: How could ethics be taught so that it wouldn’t
be perceived as “Sunday School talk”? And what if student behaviors, on
or off campus, didn’t conform to the School’s standards?
