Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bijou Theatre in Boston, on December 9. The play is Racine's comedy in three acts, entitled "Les Plaideurs," together with a ballet, presenting ore of La Fontaine's fables, "L'Huitre et les Plaideurs." This fable, which has been arranged for pantomime by M. Bernard is a moral to the play which it accompanies. This is the first attempt of the Cercle to give a play in French classic verse...
...work was almost all required, and almost entirely conducted by means of recitations instead of lectures. There were only two hundred and seventy-five men in the whole College, and a man through his classes, not only became well acquainted with his classmates, but came to know thoroughly their moral and intellectual capabilities. The College life was much closer than today...
Remember that our University was founded for the public good and that it has a great history-that steady progress is essential to its moral and intellectual health and that the health and true welfare of our University and our country go hand in hand. Thus have they been made and only thus shall they endure...
...Politics." With due allowance for an age of business, the author points out how a return to the nobler ethical standards of our ancestors would help in solving the recurring questions of the time, such as the race problem in the South, and the relation of capital and labor. Moral courage in public life is essential; for, referring to its absence he says: "As one example, take our attitude toward the corrupt use of money in our elections and in our representative bodies. . . . There can be no reverence for law where laws and law makers are bought with money...
...life pleasanter; and this is the object of what we call good manners. . . . Manners,' as Emerson says, 'are the happy ways of doing things,' and the the best manners are those which have their root in habitual self-respect and in consideration for others." Good manners, the use of moral influence, the cultivation of an inner life, all are urged as due from educated women...