Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When The Vortex was in rehearsal, A. L. Erlanger, veteran of theatrical production and real estate, removed his name from the program because he objected to the situation in the third act where a son describes to her face and with some emphasis Ms mother's moral status. From this and other reports the impression was current that the play was modern, obscene and objectionable. It turned out to be a study, in several of the characters, of idle rich degeneracy. So true was the portraiture, so sure the writing, so engrossing the setting, and so perfect the performance that...
Under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society, Dr. Samuel McC. Crothers, Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Cambridge, will lecture in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House at 4 o'clock. He has announced the title of his address as "Re-investing our Moral Securities...
...this concession, slight as it is, is denied Freshmen. Yale evidently entertains suspicions of all young men who have not been inoculated against moral disaster by a year of her special brand of religious nursing. "The incoming Freshmen," says the report, "will still be required to attend every day, their service coming at an earlier part of the morning...
...counseling respect for the law that is. What he deplores, as do all who hold precious liberty of initiative, struggle and achievement, is the existence of such laws as restrain the individual without giving commensurate social value. Before legislation in social control is enacted it should be inquired whether moral instruction may not in the long run be more effective in achieving the end sought without peril to character. Moreover, practical achievement must be taken into the reckoning, as well as the incidental effect upon other social and individual interests of the effort to promote one particular interest. When...
Then there was the question as to whether or not spiritualism is a religion, a philosophy or a moral code. None could decide that, save for himself alone...