Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...William Channing Gannett, by inheritance and nurture a humanitarian preacher and poet, whose inevitable themes are nature's miracles, the thought of God, faithfulness, and moral beauty...
...bears hardest, not on the culprits, but on the crew, and especially on its devoted captain and the hard-working coach, and on the University as a whole? Why not show some sense of proportion, some justice in the administration of justice, some power to discriminate between heedlessness and moral turpitude? What is left for the really serious moral offences except expulsion, which we know is reserved for capital offenders? Such administration is in the interest of lawlessness, because it subverts discipline by creating sympathy for the culprits and contempt for the authorities. J. G. THORP '79. Cambridge, June...
...nature. It was not a case of dishonor or immorality or viciousness, but one of woeful thoughtlessness and lack of recognition of the rules, which in the eyes of the Board is punishable in the same degree as more serious offences. The discipline meted out seems heavy. No serious moral flaw can be found in the act and the Board has not made its decision on the grounds of dishonesty in any connection, but it has dealt with the case sternly and without regard for the stakes at issue on the ground that a strict rule has been broken...
...witch and her diabolical ally of a scarecrow into a supposed English lord, who keeps up a semblance of humanity so long as he continues to smoke. The daring of the conception may be imagined when it is said that this grotesquely ludicrous figure develops a realization of the moral bearings of the human situation in which his creators, for the paying of old grudges, have placed him; and finally, love begetting in him a soul, he renounces his precarious existence for the sake of others, and foils the devilish intent of the which and the fiend who produced...
...must be one of them to appreciate their needs, to understand their feelings, and to be able to represent them honestly. The best test of a man's real worth for public capacity, and one of its most broadening influences, is contact with common life, for the intellectual and moral force of the American people is the greatest that the world has ever seen. The American soldier, standing as the does for self-sacrificing devotion to the republic, is a good example of the attitude that should be taken in public life. It is work, after all, hard, continuous work...