Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...prizes, of five hundred dollars and three hundred dollars have just been offered for the best and second best essays, respectively, on "Moral Training in Public Schools." These prizes, are offered by a citizen of California who desires his name withheld. He has appointed Reverend Charles R. Brown '77 of Oakland, California, President David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University and Professor F. B. Dresslar, of the University and Professor F. B. Dresslar, of the University of California, trustees of the fund, and sole judges of the essays submitted...
This young man may be regarded as a forerunner of some students of today, who set up intellectual difficulties in the way of faith, but who really have moral difficulties which they are attempting to hide...
...fears will rise. A clean record is the only secret of a strong character. A man cannot be strong when he is constantly trying to conceal something in his past. If he would be strong he must have a character with no stains. He cannot stop and discuss every moral question that arises, but he must be so set in his character that he can take only one side of a moral issue. A man with a clean record has established himself as a man of integrity; he is a man who may be depended upon. A great deal leaves...
...delivered an address on the "Ethical Influences of University Life." Ethics are the outcome of human experience. Ideals, which are closely allied to ethics, are in their very nature unattainable, yet their moral effect is undoubted. One of the great ethical evils of college education is the tendency to isolate from the rest of the world. This possibly occurs through the tendency of modern professors to specialize and concentrate their studies in one subject. Yet it is not a discouraging fact, when we realize the unbounded good that the world has acquired from the great University teachers...
...Among them are men of many different races, religious views and political parties, including a considerable number of socialists. The teachers, through the classes and the relationships which spring out of them are brought closely into contact with the students, thus coming to know something of the mental and moral makeup and the life problems of workingmen. This together with the discipline and responsibility of teaching, make such work of much value...