Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...four University crews all left the boathouse yesterday about four o'clock and headed up-stream. In the absence of Lunt, Coach Wray went in at number four, so that the order of the other crews might not be broken. Moral at stroke, having replaced Sargent on Monday, pulls an excellent oar, getting a longer reach and harder drive at the finish. Waid who was taken from the second crew and put in at five in the first, rows in good form, and gets a good deal of power into each stroke...
...functions of the Department which I administer is to open up the highways and byways of this artful science to the sunlight of public opinion, and so long as public opinion is sound and healthy it will kill off all the wriggling and squirming vermin that burrow through the moral fabric of our financial and political systems...
That the stock-ticker, which after all is a delicate and sensitive electrical instrument, should register this moral regeneration, is a sign of health and not of disease, and the physician who detects the germs of that disease which is sapping public confidence and poisoning the industrial and political body, is a benefactor of his country and prophet of his day and his generation. When Jenner introduced vaccination into the domain of curative and preventive medicine, the reactionaries pronounced him as an enemy of mankind, but the next generation held him up as one of the greatest benefactors...
...more important to the well-being of a state than the increased production of commodities, is the upholding of public morals. We are on the crest of a commercial age. Our foreign commerce alone exceeds our past records, three thousand, three hundred millions of dollars for the past year, and year by year it will mount higher, if we do not lose sight of economic laws and of the moral and human principles in which these laws in the last analysis are embedded...
...head-master of Groton School, and Mr. E. J. Goodwin, second Commissioner of Education in the state of New York. Speaking on "The Training and Responsibilities of Parents," Dr. Peabody said that everything in modern education depends on the influence of the home in regard to the intellectual and moral ideals of boys and girls. Parents should begin the training of their children early, and be more strict in refusing their children pleasures that will interfere with their school-work. There should be some real home interest in the life of the community and a real endeavor to interest...