Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...William Channing Gannett, by inheritance and nurture a humanitarian preacher and poet, whose inevitable themes are nature's miracles, the thought of God, faithfulness, and moral beauty...
...from Dean Sabine, which is printed in another column this morning, will attract the attention it deserves. By his lectures in the Union Dr. Grenfell has clearly demonstrated the unusual and thoroughly practical work which he is carrying on among the ignorant people of Labrador. It is a broad humanitarian movement, and one which every Harvard man should be glad to support. In furnishing volunteers and money Harvard has been liberal in the past, and we hope that our College will continue to be represented in the future in a cause so worthy...
...great heart; a scientific humanitarian, and shall...
...putting aside our own personal welfare or gain, we see before us the great national questions and the great humanitarian questions. The number-less social problems of wages, health, disease, charities, divisions of profits, are pressing on us and can be answered only by reason, guided by knowledge and high character, and to the University men especially falls this interesting task...
...main industry of the cotton States was thought to depend on slave labor. The demands of slave labor were two: economic and political. Economically its productions must be free from criticism, and politically it must be protected against social criticism and humanitarian reform. To enforce these demands the representatives of the plantation interest had to do more than stand on the defensive; they had to take the lead of the nation. In this way the whole tendency of American thought and life was for a long time withstood...