Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last November, curiously enough, this same revival was received in Puritanic Boston without a murmur of moral protest. Professors of the drama, of music and of literature were ardent in their recommendations. Widener Library prepared a special exhibit of original manuscripts, old playbills, criticisms; illustrations, and "Gayiana". The Fine Arts Theatre became the student fashion, and the original month's run was extended two weeks and again two weeks, closing only with the Christmas recess...
...been announced by the trustees of the Dudleian Lectures that the lecture this year will be given by Professor James Bissett Pratt G. '99, Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Williams College. This lecture is given annually in the spring under the terms of the will of Judge Paul Dudley, a graduate of the class of 1690, who died in 1750. The date and subject for the lecture this year have not yet been decided...
...Human interest" stories in scientific guise are commonplaces of journalism. But more than commonplace was a late dispatch from Paris, containing an ironic bit of information. Professor Charles Valliant was recently declared the winner of a prize of 15,000 francs, awarded by the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for heroism in the cause of science. He was chosen because, after repeated operations, he has sacrificed both his arms in experimenting with the X-ray. But the Academy has now been obliged to withdraw its award, because Professor Vailliant is physically unable to sign for the money...
...task of such honor societies as this Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and especially our own Carnegie Foundation, to try to find some reward for these services, or at least to give them their due honor. But if the dispatch is to be credited, there is a sharp difference between the French society and the American. Where one was held back by the flimsiest red tape from giving an earned award, the other has recently gone to the opposite extreme, as the same news-item relates. Another X-ray scholar was Dr. Adolph Leray, who died a slow death...
...consisted chiefly in the arguments that in the cancellation of the huge debts resting upon foreign governments lay the possibility of correcting the evils of Europe, that a refusal to cancel such debts would inflict political and economic harm upon this country, and finally, the United States is under moral obligations to cancel such debts as were incurred in the prosecution of the war against Germany...