Word: brethren
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...well remember the first year of the Administrative Board of the College, when he was the oldest and I was one of the youngest of its members, how he always seemed to take the side of a student in trouble, much to the impatience of some of us younger brethren, who were too apt to think that "something must really be done about this case." But when he wished not to save you, you were always made to feel that your punishment was not greater than you could bear, and that you could make it serve you to something better...
...Jesus, bearing witness to the truth; lover of righteousness, hater of iniquity; a hero in fight, a saint in prayer; he proclaimed as human invitations the perfection of God, the authority of conscience, the assurance of immortality. 'Sin to rebuke, to break the captive's chains; to call thy brethren forth from want...
...Professor Peabody and Professor Richards, were received by the Emperor, the professors and the students, and with what intense interest and absorption large numbers of students have attended their lectures throughout the semester. It is most earnestly to be desired that Harvard men will not fall short of their brethren of Berlin University in intellectual hospitality and zeal to-learn from foreign masters...
...graduates were to take the tone--"The subscription business, however, has become a nuisance"? Is it a fatal objection to the contributions now being made to the general fund that they are "unevenly distributed," and many men of small means give relatively more than some of their richer brethren? Would it not be fairer to raise the price of tution for those who are actually to profit by it, instead of appealing to the generosity of those who are long out of College? If, as has sometimes been said, it is humiliating to a student to solicit money from another...
...system are the admirable hygienic precautions, and the system of workmen's insurance which compels every employee receiving less than a stipulated wage to invest in insurance and pensions for himself and family a certain fraction of his yearly earnings. The motto of the German code is "Love your brethren;" and for that reason it is proper that the embodiment of the German ideas should be placed in the Harvard Museum of Social Ethics. The motive of the Emperor in presenting this gift was two-fold: first, to foster closer relations between German and American economists, and secondly, to promote...