Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell has shown clearly the urgent needs of the University and the necessity of securing the remainder of the fund which the alumni pledged itself to raise some fifteen months ago. Yet while the financial contract stands $2,800,000 unfulfilled, the moral obligation rests heavier on the 8500 Harvard men who have not given a single dollar in this campaign...
...graduate of a college of recognized standing or of a professional school requiring three years of study for a degree; or else he must be 24 years of age and have spent five years' work in requiring like technical skill. In the fourth place he must be of good moral character and intellectual ability, and of suitable personal qualities. Lastly, he must have a practical ability to use French books, both in general and special fields...
Speaker Gillett devoted the rest of his speech to the real significance of Article 10. He brought out the unstable and unnaturally aggravated conditions in Europe we would be under a compelling moral obligation to deal with, even to declaring war, which Congress could not refuse to do without repudiating the treaty. He emphasized that Harding stood for a League and that Cox stood for the present League, which there was no reason to believe he could get through the Senate...
...always understood as it should be by young men that is the menace of the present League. America is the hope of the world she is in a position of great power. Let not that position be wasted by entering entangling alliances, by having imposed upon us 'a compelling moral obligations' as Mr. Wilson admits himself that Article 10 imposes, to send our boys into wars not their own. Men, particularly young men I think, are moved by phrases concerning the nation's obligations' and 'the country's responsibility'. Beware of these. America got nothing...
...spite of the fact that they lost a few men as a result of injuries, the moral effect of the victory over West Virginia will do much to prepare Yale for the big games with Harvard and Princeton. Even Saturday a marked improvement was shown in every department of the game. The blue-clad team played hard, fast football. The eleven that a little over a week ago was heavy of foot and slow of wit was changed into a hard-tackling, fast-running, and alert aggregation. There were few missed tackles, almost no fumbles, and the interference, ragged...