Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consider for a moment these conditions of European student life. I may divide the courses of the rapid development of the European Student Federation into two important categories: economical and moral...
...there has been a moral motive for the organization as well, and I should like to point out that this moral motive was much the more important of the two; in fact we can realize the whole importance of this student movement if we take into consideration this moral background...
...great a part this moral motive played in the foundation of the European student federations I can demonstrate best by citing the example of the student organizations of the neutral countries. Switzerland, Holland, Denmark and Sweden did not need any organizations for economical reasons. There has been no economical debacle there and if they felt the consequences of the financial disaster in Europe it was not in 1919 or 1920 but later, and certainly not so strongly as Germany or Hungary. Nevertheless in all these neutral countries there grew up a strong centralized student body, and you will agree with...
Amid the ensuing pandemonium, astute politicians predicted with moral certainty that the Deputies would ratify the Pacts by a more than comfortable majority when the vote should be finally taken...
...students an attitude of spiritual exaltation, scarcely requires proof, not is it strange. The student of today, and above all Harvard, has no use for the forms of religion. He lives in an age, as well as in a period of his own life, of revaluation of primary moral and intellectual conceptions; his comfortable faiths and prejudices when tested with experience and the white light of intellectual criticism reveal the bare skeleton of dogma, and as such become abhorrent. That he goes too far in rejecting the background of faith is the charge made categorically against him by the self...