Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spirit of the elective system is well exemplified by the trend of work in the Graduate School where three quarters of the members study the languages and the moral sciences as against one-quarter who pursue mathematics and the physical and natural sciences. In the College the tendency seems to be fully as marked; the undergraduate must be forcibly interested in mathematics and the sciences. There is no indication that the average undergraduate who finds courses in the languages and moral sciences both entertaining and contributory to refinement and culture, will freely elect courses in those sciences which are purely...
...Hall, the next speaker, said that one of the problems Phillips Brooks had to face was the unnatural relationship of religion to morals,--the relationship of speculative to practical religion. This same relationship between speculative religion and the simple way of living had existed for ages, and it was this state of affairs against which Bishop Brooks made his protest. The innermost key to the power of the great divine was his perfect balance between religious faith and true moral living. Religion at Harvard, as seen by an outsider, may be considered from three points of view. The point...
...hope that through its teaching; the great principles upon which our national constitution is based, and in conformity to which administration should be carried on, will be vindicated and strengthened; that the fit relations between parties and government will be made plain, that the obligations of the moral law and of patriotic endeavor in party politics and all official life will be persuasively expounded; that the just relations between public opinion, party opinion and individual independence will be set forth; that an effective influence will be exerted for making public administration and legislation in the United States worthy...
Shakespeare's attitude toward Falstaff was emphasized. It has been said by critics and others that Shakespeare loved a rogue, but this is not true, since his moral attitude toward Falstaff was one of disapproval. He represents Falstaff as he was and gives him credit for his wonderfully brilliant wit and sense of humor, but he also shows him as unprincipled, selfish, egotistical and vulgar, and, in the end, the prince sees through Falstaff's frivolity and sham, recognizes his utter worthlessness and condemns him as unfit for the society of true...