Word: upliftment
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...purposes) in his White House office desk, and Coolidge, dry as a Vermont tinder box but deficient in the hot crusading flame of the true prohibitor. Now-bless the day-had come a President in whom for years has been seen a steady, scientific glow of enthusiasm for social uplift...
...Tabulation will reveal the clothes philosophy of our young barbarians, the outward expression of their minds. Doubtless undergraduates of the college now proving itself so unworthy of them will rebuke its want of comity, its rebellion against one of the noblest forms of sociological effort and the spirit of uplift. In the language of its own discipline, it deserves a "public admonition." Answering of questionnaires should be made compulsory, at least to college professors, perhaps the largest producers. --New York Times...
...long, his back is like a tortoise . . . when he speaks he praises the ancient kings. He moves along the path of humility and courtesy. He has heard of every subject. . . . His knowledge of things seems inexhaustible." He edited the ancient classics, compiled the precepts of propriety, attempted to uplift and order civilization. As magistrate, he justified Plato's ideal of government by philosophers - until political jealousy put him out of office. Bitterly disappointed, he died in sorrow, little guessing that it would be said of him: "Confucius is China." But such is Author Beck's opinion. Best known...
...Erickson has been, during his years spent in the Balkans, missionary, social worker, government adviser, government representative, and director of the agricultural school. He was Albania's representative at the Paris Peace Conference, and has taken active interest in the reconstruction and uplift of the nation since the War. He was in the country in September when Ahmet Zogu, then president of the Albanian Republic, was made king, and finds in the change a wise step toward the advancement of the nation...
Unlike the New York clergymen who are forever getting movements under way to uplift the drama (they did it again last week), the Princeton undergraduates are not impelled by motives of pure altruism. In the latest film the Andy Foger of the Princeton campus, on the morning of the track meet wit. Yale, gave a few short ones of cocains to the university-half-miler. And all was for the hand of a Vassar maid...