Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduates of the University are branded more or less delicately as "snobs," the proof of their snobbery being sown thick with mention of Gold Coasts, clubs and other evil inventions. It is somewhat of a question whether a man is an aristocrat even if he puts no virtuous boycott on Mt. Auburn street dormitories, and is social enough to like to meet his friends in a social organization...
...play concerns a woman of noble rank who is jilted by her lover, the Duo de Bligny, and in a reaction of shame and anger becomes engaged to a virtuous and prosperous Ironmaster who is ardently in love with her. The rest of the play, to quote the words of the program, is taken up with the wife's "gradual realization of her husband's many good qualities." There is, of course, an inevitable heavy father, not to mention a mother, a Marquise of correspondingly ponderable emotions. More witty by play is furnished by a pair of comic married lovers...
...indeed, for both the Senator and the University from which he was graduated were it not for the fact that Harvard has always been its worst (or best) critic, and has always esteemed its self-criticism a virtue. Such being the case, the gentleman from New Hampshire has been virtuous to the point of sanctimoniousness, for this is not the first time Harvard has felt his barbed shafts...
...continents and oceans of the globe, so that men's minds are every where absorbed with the varying spectacle of contending physical forces, it is more than ever necessary to recognize that civilization consists of peaceful industry, of the physical well-being of the people, of good government, of virtuous character and righteousness, of education and intelligence and of the activities of art, science, and the highest functions of the human spirit. To these intellectual and spiritual objects, colleges and universities are dedicated. They are the antithisis of brute force and are essentially a protest against...
...Here, again, I mention these men merely to illustrate by example just what I mean in what I have to say to you tonight. It is the easiest thing in the world for any man, sitting in his study, to write virtuous articles in which he declaims against the greed of people who are engaged in destroying our forests or wasting our water supply. But it is an exceedingly difficult thing practically to work out a scheme of conservation. And this was just exactly what Messrs. Garfield and Pinchot did. Their work was done not only with zeal and disinterestedness...