Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Total Abstinence League is to be congratulated on the success attending its meeting yesterday afternoon in Sever11. A large number of students were present and the generous applause bestowed on the speakers showed conclusively the deep interest taken in the proceedings. The moral and physical evils of intemperance were clearly and effectively stated by Ex-Gov. St. John of Kansas, Col. Bain of Kentucky and Hon. John B. Finch of Nebraska...
...pathetic trilogy of the 'three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso as possible...
...pathetic trilogy of the 'three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso as possible...
...friendship and in exhibiting the methods of instruction and government," at the various colleges. But he also recognizes the dangers to which the college journalist is exposed but considers that they can be avoided by taking proper precautions. But he pays them the highest compliment when, speaking of their moral influence, he says.-"The college paper is therefore, in respect to moral character, usually above than below the level of college sentiment, and its moral influence, therefore, is elevating...
...show "the vast political influence of the New England clergy in the agitations of those times" are Jonathan Mayhew and Charles Chauncey. Jonathan Mayhew was "in the pulpit, a sort of tribune of the people." Charles Chauncey was "a man of leonine heart, of strong, cool brain, of uncommon moral strength. He bore a great part in the intellectual strife of the revolution; but before that strife opened, he bad moulded deeply the thought of his time, both by his living speech and by his publications." Coming now nearer to '76 we meet the brothers, Samuel and John Adams...