Word: moralizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been the establishment of classes and boys' clubs, as well as manual-training and cooking classes. These classes teach the children reliance and give them a chance to assert their own individuality, and to express their own ideas, the lack of which is a strong factor in their moral degradation. If the children can be educated by means of beautiful schools and open parks, half the battle will...
...Janvier, Princeton '80, of Philadelphia, gave a lecture on "India" in Phillips Brooks House last night. After a description of the general physical characteristics of the country, and of the intellectual and moral condition of the people, Mr. Janvier gave an account of the three great movements or crises of the present day in India, the social change in the breaking down of caste, the movement away from the old religions into agnosticism or atheism, and the political awakening stimulated by the success of Japan. He referred to the work of the Y. M. C. A., which is under...
Nicholas W. Tchaykovsky, a man about 60 years of age, gave up a home of comfort and pleasure to enter the ranks of the poor in the early struggles for justice about 1870. Since that time his name has stood for absolute moral integrity, and has been associated with various revolutionary organizations. About 1873 he was imprisoned and soon after, forced to go into temporary exile. He came to this country in 1875, and lived on a farm in Kansas for two years. He then moved to Philadelphia, going most of the way on foot, and worked in a ship...
...with a vigorous article by Alexander Forbes '04 on one aspect of the ever-present athletic question. The writer's main point is that, in abandoning the English attitude of "sport for sport's sake," American college athletes have not degraded but have elevated athletics, turning them to a moral discipline which study or mere play fails to afford. He is remarkably candid in admitting the moral evils in the present condition of football; but his argument fails to convince the reviewer mainly because it ignores the contrast between the widespread demoralization caused by the admitted evils and the narrow...
...genius which makes its possessor a special object of admiration and of general interest; and if this genius finds its expression in verse addressed not only to the comparative few of highly cultivated intelligence, but through its breadth of sympathy and through its musical expression of simple elementary moral sentiments appealing to the vast multitude of common men and women, the blessing is still further enhanced. And if combined with genius be a character of exceptional purity, gentleness and graciousness, then the blessing of the presence of such a nature in a community is perfected. Such a blessing was bestowed...