Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unemotional as the Lord's Prayer or the Ten Commandments. They are fundamental, at the bottom of our national integrity, national force and perhaps national existence. They lie at the foundations of government, just as the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments lie at the foundation of our moral and spiritual life. They furnish safe indications for our relations with other men and even with other nations...
...should build up a strong national feeling. We do not want a loose internationalism which makes anybody's business our business. We have been spanking a good many nations for their moral conduct, nations over which we have no real control. We ought to be a force for right and peace, but we shall do best by acting as Americans under some such arrangements as shall be left by adopting the League with reservations. Then let us recognize that we ought to try to save the machinery of the League. We are going to do things just...
What does four years here on our own college campus do to a man or woman? If they are normal they are vastly different from the individuals who first enrolled at the University as verdant yearlings. A subtle change is effected in their personalities, intellects, and moral outlook upon life. There is a sameness about most of the students who graduate from this University or any other university. For four years they have been trained to think alike, dress, and act alike. The individual who has steeled himself against convention is unusual and difficult to find. The student who dares...
...usually has on). But Phillips Brooks House does have other functions besides finding strange room-mates for even stranger Freshmen, and bothering us with printed questionnaires which would make the War Department green with envy. It possesses the main qualification of a "true Bostonian,"--to wit: a High Moral Purpose in life. That it lives up to this standard may be learned by diligent perusal of its spring statement which appears as usual, this year, under the title of "Annual Report...
Only supreme ability founded on thorough knowledge and a consummate command of the practical, moral and ethical factors in administration could, in a new and desperately urgent and difficult public service, involving the daily well being of millions of families, have won for Mr. Hoover the confidence of this nation...