Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fitzgeraldiam is apparently on the decline. In spite of the horrible stories which are written to lay bare the inner Soul of the present day college student, he is really a man of infinitely greater intelligence and moral character than was his father a generation ago. So at least thinks the "Literary Digest", which has been at some pains to find out just what a representative group of college presidents think about their undergraduates...
...wearied with the somewhat captions Jeremiads of an older generation, will enthusiastically agree. In fact a majority of the presidential observations might almost be termed flowery. From the unbroken string of epithets and abuse which was fashionably applied to the youth of the land five years ago in the moral depression following the war, the weather vane of opinion has swung around to a point which almost indicates approaching tirades against the old for not keeping face with the spiritual idealism of the young...
...course both extremes are absurd. College men today are no more persons of sterling Christian character and high moral worth than they were inherently wicked, depraved, and leprous in the two years which followed the signing of the armistice. Their only fault was that they were and are young, and, being more receptive to new influences than their elders, unconsciously responded more immediately to changing conditions of time and circumstance. After the war, sensing the general relaxation, they let down, while their elders still held blindly on. Presently they felt the coming of what is hoped will...
...which high Heaven and Conan Doyle alone can solve. For the most part, it seems due to tradition, a sense of the irreducible social minima, and a praiseworthy spirit of noblesse oblige; or it may be a vague present satisfaction of future desires, a faint, presaging indication of that moral awakening which in the opinion of a prominent school of psychological thought the final development of the perfect mind...
...formed on an uncertain basis and we cannot be sure that atrocities, even worse than the one in hand, will not be committed more frequently in the future. The leaders of tomorrow must have trained minds, but these minds should not be developed at the expense of a moral sense. Intellects which know nothing of human experiences cannot help being warped and twisted. THE DAILY PALO ALTO, Stanford University...