Word: importance
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There are no considerations of higher import than the just relations of capital and labor. The organization of capital, which is a normal and logical development of our times, should welcome reasonable laws which place wholesome restraints upon its activities, so that through competition or otherwise it will not be induced or forced to overstep the safeguards of industrial rights and block the highways of opportunity for the humblest citizen of the land. There can be no liberty without opportunity, and to the extent that opportunity is abridged, whether by the state or by cor- porate power, it is denial...
...your columns to call the attention of the students to a musical project which in the opinion of its promoters is of considerable import. The details of the undertaking cannot be set forth better than by quoting from the prospectus which is called "A Proposal for Music in American Colleges...
Permit me to express a wish that no member of the Union will miss the opportunity of hearing Mr. Horace Fletcher's address tonight. The subject on which he will speak is of fundamental importance both to the individual and to the State. If his observations on diet, confirmed already on a limited scale, should prove true on a universal scale, it is impossible to overestimate their revolutionary import. Mr. Fletcher is one of the most original and "sympathetic" personalities whom Massachusetts in our day has produced. His teaching and example have been of such vital benefit to certain persons...
...Aposties' Creed is praised because it is a statement of facts; but the facts need to be shown as having a spiritual import. The Father must not mean Creator merely, but the Righteous Friend and Lover of men, the source of all beneficence. The position we claim for the Son must not be so much a metaphysical as a moral supremacy. The old creeds, if moral interpretation be given them, even the Athanasian Creed may be used for the support of a moral and social faith. Coming to the Confessions of the Reformation period, we must understand their watchword, "Faith...
...Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures for the generous and efficient services rendered by the Pierian Sodality and the Deutscher Verein on the occasion of the recent "Iphigenie" performance. It was very gratifying to have the ready co-operation of those student organizations in a matter of such serious import, and to see their youthful enthusiasm contribute so much to the success of the undertaking. Very truly yours, KUNO FRANCKE...