Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movies are wrong sometimes. Even the Riviera has its more staid, moral and conservative element. It seems that the younger generation of France had read Rousseau and had taken his teachings to heart. In the cool of the afternoon they were wont to bathe on the Riviera beach clad only as God made them...
...University fixes the average of prices at what it perceives as a fair and just rate, using for comparison the standards of other universities similar to Harvard. In effect, this principle is that the University while aware of its moral obligation to be as fair to the students as possible, at the same time charges what the traffic will bear. Since costs of education are considerably more than receipts from the students, this appears reasonable...
...Only children of a New Generation- a New America-can stand against this future world. . . . One of the biggest of all problems is to drive in this idea of the necessity of properly born, trained, educated and healthy moral children to the voters and officials of America-most of our native criminal class are products of city slums. If these children were watched and nurtured a criminal type of child would not develop. . . . We must see that their roots have proper soil to put their precious tendrils into. City children must not be denied grass and flowers, fields and streams...
...Holiness defined marriage as a union primarily for the propagation and education of children, a pact of mutual faith and honor, an inviolable, indissoluble sacrament between its partners. Fervently he assailed the moral laxities, the intellectual theories, which tend to demolish this ideal. Said he: ". . . As Christ's vicar upon earth and supreme shepherd and teacher we consider it our duty to raise our voice to keep the flock committed to our care from poisoned pastures. . . . For now, alas! not secretly or under cover, but openly, with all sense of shame put aside, now by word, again by writings...
Birth Control. Especially did His Holiness inveigh against birth control: "The Catholic Church, to whom God has entrusted the defense of the integrity and purity of morals, standing erect in the midst of the moral ruin which surrounds her, in order that she may preserve the chastity of the nuptial union from being denied by this foul stain, raises her voice in token of Divine ambassadorship and through our mouth proclaims anew...