Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduates were divided among four different departments of the graduate school. First prizes of $200 each were awarded to Henry Siggins Leonard 2G, of Newton, for his essay on "Plato's Theory of Logical Division" and to Chester Linn Shaver 1G, of Somerset, Pennsylvania, for an essay named "The Moral Idealism of Aeschylus." "Hunting Oil with Dynamite," by Lewis Don Leet 2G, of Cambridge, and "Aspects of the Control of Animal Conduct," by Theodore James Blanchard Stier 4G, both brought second prize awards of $100 to their authors...
...following character sketch of the late Professor Sophocles, who was a famous member of the Classical Department of the University many years ago, was written in 1891 by Professor George Herbert Palmer, now Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus. It is reprinted from "The Story of Fay House," a book by Mrs. George Plerce Baker, recently published by the University Press...
...evidence of goodwill, the words of President Portes Gil are most important. The Church and her ministers are prepared to cooperate with him in every just and moral effort made for the improvement of the people...
Next came arraignment of flask-toting, whiskey-smuggling Congressmen, of bribe-rotted enforcement officers; praise for the Spirit of Liberty. The Hoover logic was then trapped and chided. The President had ascribed "high moral instincts" to the People in one breath, and in the next had complained that respect for law was fading from their sensibilities. The President had complained of increased crime but had not perceived that the drastic Jones (Five & Ten) Act, by sending up liquor prices and making convictions fewer, would cause the liquor trade to finance the underworld more handsomely than ever...
Harvard supporters thought this a lucky accident whereby the Crimson narsmen would gain the moral advantage of about a length's lead. It turned out very much the opposite, however, for Behrman brought his crew together admirably, and, raising the stroke tow or three points, again restored a driving rythm to his shell which made it regain the lost territory and go forging past the two Cambridge crews...