Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would not be understood as belittling the efforts of diplomacy in the avoidance of the causes of war-notably the anti-war treaties, which are so great a triumph of the present Federal Administration. Always we may count upon a saving remnant with strong and delicate imagination, moral sensitiveness and spirituality who in times of moral crisis, by their surer instinct, save us if we are to be saved. Let us give them our wholehearted support, but let us be wise in our day and generation and not put our trust in them alone...
...self-appointed sociologists who make it there business to compare every phase of American education with the English system which has made the Anglo-Saxon race predominant on every playing field, battle field, and tropical trading post in the world will be hard put to it to draw a moral from the most recent news flash emanating from the Towers of Oxford. Within the week eight hundred products of the traditional college system gathered together at the office of the proctor in answer to a bogus printed notice. Coming at 9.15 in the morning this practical joke must have broken...
Then came the next season the great moral victory of the Crimson team. With M.A. Cheek '26 playing stellar football an underdog Harvard eleven held the Blue cohorts to a 0 to 0 tie, in weather the most unfavorable. The 1926 fray in the Bowl is remembered by undergraduates for the Harvard touchdown brought about by a pass, Henry Chauncey '27 to W.G. Saltonstall '28, which gave the Crimson rooters a moment of hope. The game ended, however, with Yale in the lead, 12 to 7. Last year's tilt in the Stadium brought out the steady power the Blue...
...believe that the undergraduates of today in Cambridge lack the moral courage to back a losing eleven, or a series of losing elevens...
Sacred Lunatic easily acquired a sufficient smattering of Rampolese, quickly learned to relish succulent human meat. The Islanders prided themselves that they were not cannibalistic, but merely appreciative of the "gifts of the goddess"-bodies of criminals. Moral standards were unusually high, for the monotonous fish-diet made every man the more eager to detect a gustable neighbor's mortal infringement...