Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sport. People are discussing Harvard football while waiting for the next cross-word puzzle to come out. As baseball has burst the bounds of the playing months, so football now has a carry-over. Another phase of interest is the great desire to have a winning team. Moral victories are splendid for the other fellow, and sport for sport's sake is always a fine subject, but the average graduate or undergraduate wants something that he can throw up his hat for. A losing team that goes down fighting gloriously brings no thrills...
...trouble, indeed, is not with Christianity, but in the way with which men practice it. Ideally, Justice Clark's dilemma is a true one; practically, it is not. Instead of merely pleading for religion, therefore, he must urge a moral regeneration of mankind, a true use of the precepts of Christianity. The prospect of peace is made all the more gloomy because in the present very materialistic civilization the practice of brotherly love scarcely extends beyond the home circle, let along transcends national boundaries. To pound home the very sordid conclusion that another war will forever wreck American prosperity...
...intellectual calibre of Harvard. What it can accomplish is a revision of the system of administration, in so far as it may find true culture to be suffering from commercial oppression. But the real investigation of policy should originate from within. The legislature has the legal force, whereas the moral suasive power rests with the vast body of Harvard men. Harvard undoubtedly needs business men to administer its finances: If those men tend to stifle liberal education the administration of policy should be placed in other hands - the hands of men who have at heart the interests of the republic...
...Bryan's unfamiliarity with the facts in the case. A lawyer who does not know law or a doctor who has not studied medicine is a quack and subject to legal control; even a high school teacher must be duly certificated. Is there not at least a moral obligation that a man professing authoritative leadership on evolution should first familiarize himself with the subject?"-Dr. Edward L. Rice, Ohio Wesleyan University (Methodist...
...Substitute moral force and public opinion for the military and eco- nomic force originally implied in Articles...