Word: mould
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scene of the play is laid in the Plymouth Colony in Pilgrim times. The plot is of two youths of today who, projected back into Pilgrim times, become entangled with their own ancestors, and try to mould their own destinies...
...taken forty years of unceasing fighting, of patient waiting, of striving to mould public opinion, without which we cannot get anywhere, or, if we do, find ourselves stuck, side-tracked and helpless before we know it. It is going to take us twenty years more to get where we cannot slide back. Every winter the forces of selfish greed that care nothing for the neighbor, nothing for the state, and in their utter short-sightedness and folly cannot grasp the meaning of the President's constant warning that "we go up or down together," can see only their own immediate...
...thoughts that mould the age begin...
...necessary. We should, however, try to have the spirit and principles that he had and carry them out according to our own time and place. A man can get only a faint reflection of Christ's character, but he must use this small knowledge to mould his own life. Christ was not an ecclesiastic, not a theologian, but a simple lover of men who tried to give them happiness. We must remember that happiness is character, what a man is, not what he has. A young man on the threshold of life must try to find out what his mission...
...Briggs has an article in the October number of the "Atlantic Monthly" on "Some Old-Fashioned Doubts about New-Fashioned Education." In this article Dean Briggs expresses some doubts as to whether the best results are to be obtained by the "new-fashioned" education in its increasing tendency to mould itself with too great pliability, to individual traits and tendencies. "With the kindergarten at one end of our education and with the elective system at the other we see, or seem to see a falling off in the vigor with which men attack distasteful but useful things,--a shrinking from...