Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Paul's Society. Another institution, organized last year and now coming into prominence, is the Committee on Religious Meetings in Phillips Brooks House, which aims to extend its influence as far as possible to all members of the University, and is most intimately connected with Harvard moral and religious life...
...which he showed afterward; there was conquest in the fearful wreck and destruction of the Spanish fleet off Santiago, but there was more than conquest in the act of the captain of the "Texas" who stopped the cheering of his men because the enemy were dying. In the moral fights of earth, Paul called the disciples of Christ to be "more than conquerors." He called them to conquer temptation and to be more sympathetic and more ready to help because they had succeeded; he called them to suffer and to be more patient and self-renouncing because they had suffered...
...Institute is to train the young Southern Negroes as intelligent and capable farmers and artisans, and to teach them to regain the industrial supremacy which in their ignorance they lost after the war. It is in this effort to raise the industrial status, and with it the mental and moral conditions of the negro race, that the Institute appeals for the co-operation and aid of those who regard the interests of the black people and the interests of the whole country, which for good or evil, must be indissolubly intertwined with them...
...bank, it could not be said that there was any irrepressible conflict of any industrial sort. So far, then, as hindsight avails, the Southerners in 1850 could not have seen any threat to their civilization from specific material interests in the North. It was the North's moral awakening and not its industrial alertness, its free thought and not its free labor which the Southern planters had to fear. We can not, however, see what actually happened unless we go inside of the Southern civilization, observe the forces that threatened it, and humanly understand what purposes and impulses governed...
Harvard showed that the preservation of the Chinese empire would mean war for the United States; that a single war would precipitate international war; that the commercial gain was not sufficiently great; and that the United States was under no moral obligation to China...