Word: man
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting held last night in the Old South Church, Boston, in the interest of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, President Lowell was the first speaker. He introduced Booker T. Washington, the principal speaker, as a man who has done more than any other for the elevation of the Negro race, and a man who should be universally admired and respected...
...class. When seven men are nominated for one office, it is manifestly an easy matter for a ticket to overthrow the general will of a class. There are not two parties in this election; there are seven representative men who have been honored with a trust. Not a man is standing for a principle or a platform; each is being judged solely by the efficient personality which his election will place in a position of trust...
...mistakes of one's political competitors, but at Harvard we will not even stand for the rumor that those who compiled the provisional voting list intentionally omitted a single name. Electioneering, whether in a private study or in a club, is despicable, for a ticket intended to defeat a man is as bad as a ticket formed to elect him. The purity of election and the loyalty of the class to the men it elects, must be preserved...
...foregoing is published with the full approval of a non-partisan Nominating Committee. It should commend itself to any man who believes that in politics as in athletics Harvard stands for cleanness first, last, and all the time. EDWARD EYRE HUNT...
...kind that is of the greatest interest to men. Laws decrease legal liberty but increase real liberty. There are also two kinds of rights: legal and moral; but there are no such things as inalienable rights as maintained by Jefferson, Mill and George. Abraham Lincoln said: "No man has a right to do wrong." Equality is an equal distribution of wealth among the classes of society, and the equal distribution of the means of consumption is desirable. Self-interest and intelligence are the most prevalent useful qualities in human nature; the former should be used to impel, and the latter...