Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scanty background in the American student's home training. This purely collegiate living, in the midst of university environment has been the cause of much shaking of heads by educational leaders whose eyes are fixed upon European models. They ignore the fact that without these undergraduate bodies the moral and financial strength of the university would not exist, and even the tremendous pressure that great educational foundations can bring to bear will never uproot this truly American feature...
...that each "tomb" has its windowless "shrine" or ceremonial chamber where the most unmentionable rites are performed; that the central motive of each brotherhood is mutual fealty and assistance in time of need, and the maintenance of a code of ideals, emotional if not spiritual, gentlemanly if not militantly "moral...
...there exists another bondage none the less real because it substitutes a shuffle for a lock-step. Even at Harvard where current collegiatisms exert no great moral pressure, a colloquialism can become standard overnight. The latest innovation of this sort had a lowly beginning at Arthur's as "Sorry on the Seagoing." And now throughout the College, men are "sorry on" every missing object from shoe trees to the ace of spades...
...much like that with which Author T. F. Powys has exposed the rotten boroughs of England, but without that writer's bookmanship, are the hill and village folk that made possible in this land and century the preposterous "monkey trial" at Dayton, Tenn. Following no plot, pointing no moral, it is simply a contemporary pageant of ignorance masquerading as "smartness," bigotry as uprightness, mob violence as morality, pleasure as the unpardonable sin, among isolated people whose surroundings seem to have become a spiritual wasteland, stunting and evaporating in them all but their physical vigor, malicious wit and crudest humanities...
...born in the reversible year of 1881. Preternaturally indolent and talkative, he successfully resisted his father's efforts to make a storekeeper or lawyer out of him. He wrote incessantly. His failure to sell anything was just as incessant, until he caught the knack of turning out moral tales for a Sunday school magazine. These, turned off at the rate of seven a day, permitted him to live in New Orleans, Cuba, Europe, Philadelphia. About 1918 he sold a story to Adventure and at once went home to become a novelist, which he speedily and notably did with Birthright...