Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conduct a concentrated survey of all the moral problems which meet and face the modern church and of the ways in which it has so far shown itself inadequate to face them...
...Leatherbee '29, President of the Dramatic Club, said that it had never been their policy to present plays bordering upon the limits of moral turpitude to such an extent as to be provocative of suspension, whether for purposes of publicity or otherwise; but that they had followed only the practice of producing new dramas which have never before been acted in public. Leatherbee also said that each play, before rehearsals even have started, is first passed by a graduate board, among whom are: Professor F. C. Packard '20, Winthrop Ames '95, Professor J. S. P. Tatlock '96, Walter Prichard Eaton...
...take this attitude the doctrine of "inerrancy of the Scriptures" is given another meaning. Much of rhe material in the Old and New Testament is accepted as true in the historical sense, the rest of it is considered true in a symbolical sense. It is true inasmuch as the moral or mystical meaning which it symbolizes is true...
...Telegram, calling attention to this, editorially pointed the moral: "Too often the . . . honest reporter has found himself classed with the . . . wilful liar, by persons who hope to evade responsibility for statements made with the full knowledge that they were for publication, by recanting at the first sign of disfavor with their stand...
...this football rally it is customary for all Yale undergraduates to yell and cheer. This year, however, only 500 were gathered together in the name of Yale. President James Rowland Angell, having campaigned so vigorously and with such notable success for Herbert Hoover, apparently supposed that his moral support might also take happy effect upon the football team. "The bigger they come, the harder they fall," he said. Then Tad Jones, onetime Yale coach, spoke scornfully of the decline of the Yale spirit and the growth of wisdom. With tears in his eyes he described the undergraduates who were...