Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surely the undergraduate here must appreciate the response of the man from Hanover, for newspaper fame and the accompanying fortune are not so easy to forego in reality as in the theorized discussions of the ethics laboratory. Yet when one man has moral strength enough to play a game for what the game itself offers and no more, then college athletics by his single example maintain a higher, a better place in the development of youth; when another is weak, then he sets a feeble example to the next generation of football players and gives the outside world another chance...
...What is the antidote? The Bible in the public schools which will reach 27,000,000 children who receive no moral training in any other place. With 620,580 teachers in the United States, each one devoting ten minutes a day to the reading of the Bible and moral instruction, a wave of morality and good citizenship would be started which would reach every part of our Nation...
About ten years ago Mr. Erskine published a work entitled The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent. His portrait of Helen is of a woman who believes in the moral obligation to be intelligent and who suffers from the natural obligation of being beautiful...
...shelter, treatment, and discipline of physical, mental, and moral "lame ducks"; a species of sanatorium or reform school for young people who are "too much" for busy, lazy, or incompetent parents or guardians...
...endorsement of or guaranteeing League policies. This is far more important than it seems on the surface. The European Powers which control the Council of the League of Nations submit to the World Court only questions which they cannot settle themselves or for which they want a wide international "moral underwriting" of the decision. We should be the only Great Power on the bench of the Court which is not a member of the League Council. When our representative is simply a judge helping to render the verdict in accordance with the evidence, or the technicalities...