Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale Daily News with a succinct and persuasive statement. The object of a college education is culture. "Culture is not the finished product, much less the meretricious trappings of an inferior article serving to deceive the observer. Culture is fertilization. . . . True education must make fertile the intellectual and moral ground so that it can bear fruit in the proper season. To be more concrete, the real education which a college can give is that which enables the alumnus to judge for himself with reasonable expectation of success...
Last night at 8 o'clock in Emerson D, Professor J. B. Pratt '99, Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Williams College, delivered the annual Dudlerian Lecture. His subject was "Natural Religion--Consciousness and its Implications". Professor Pratt confined himself to the question, "What is man?" He demonstrated that personality can not be analyzed by chemistry or physics, and showed that the ability to look ahead and imagine leads us to believe in the existence of something in the mind, absolutely independent of the human body...
...will deliver the Dudleian Lecture tonight at 2 in Emerson D. The subject of the lecture is "Natural Religion--Consciousness and its Application". Professor Pratt, a graduate of Williams College who received his Master of Arts' degree from the University in 1899, is Mary Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Williams College. The Dudleian Lecture is delivered annually in accordance with the will of Judge Paul Dudley, who died in 1750. The lecture is open to the public...
Just as the goal of every Moslem's heart is Mecca, so the goal of every senator's heart seems to be the continent of Europe. The latter goal is widespread, but all the more room for observation and criticism--a vast area for picking up moral gems in favor of isolation. At the present time, Senator Hirarn Johnson is on his pilgrimage through this tempestuous land of strains and stressed and is last approaching the Ruhr, determined to seek out the rights and wrongs of matters there...
...deduced that there was at least an outrage on public decency within the meaning of the law, because, to paraphrase the court's language, "it seriously offends the religious beliefs and sensibilities of the adherents of the Christian faith and tends to undermine and weaken religious and moral restraints...