Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...speaker then dwelt at some length upon the injury to the moral welfare of the city which would result from the policy of municipal ownership. Graft and corruption have prevailed in New York City politics almost without interruption ever since the earliest recollection of the oldest inhabitants...
...mission movement had two distinct motives, philanthropic pity for the moral condition of the heathen, and dogmatic intensity to spread Christianity. The spirit has since grown better and broader because of the growth of humanism and of the increased knowledge of the spirit and life f the East...
...citizenship, and in teaching it the instructor must preach the gospel of work, and must convince his pupils of the vital importance of good men becoming politicians. Mr. Munroe advocated small classes, and emphasized the necessity that children today should receive a truly liberal education, physical, mental and moral...
...Christian Association has in press and will issue next week two new short courses on the life and teaching of Christ, which are to be made the basis of a new plan of study and discussion of moral and religious questions by small groups of men in the dormitories. This idea was applied with great success at a number of other colleges last year, particularly at Cornell, Michigan, Yale and at West Point, where more than half of the corps entered the classes...
...general plan for the use of these new outline courses is to offer them to all men living in dormitories, and where ever in a hall or entry the residents care to organize among themselves a small group for discussion of questions raised by the courses, or moral and religious problems in general, to provide a leader for the class, if desired. Groups of this sort meeting for informal discussion for an hour a week, have already been formed in Weld, Matthews, Thayer, Ridgely, Hastings, Waverley and Shepherd's Block. Some of these have followed a course, others their...