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Integrity and delight  By Stephen Salkever / January 13, 1983
From remarks by a professor of political science at Bryn Mawr
delivered at a convocation on integrity requested by students.
Why play the game by its rules? Why honor commitments? Why not
cheat? The most common and least happy answer is the one derived
from duty: You must because you must, no matter how much it
hurts. This line of defense manages to praise integrity only by
affirming its painfulness, and has nothing to say to the secret
and hardly criminal inclination to avoid public duty whenever it
conflicts with the chances for individual success.  Skip to next
paragraph  The invitation to integrity must give us reasons for
loving that virtue, for seeing it as lovable, and not as a
righteous burden; so Theodore Weld, the American evangelist and
abolitionist, speaking in 1834 to a gathering of prospective
recruits to the antislavery cause, said: ''Further, if you join
us merely out of a