Word: oppression
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Even before this, however, a man should strive for a spotless reputation. Live an honorable life. Never degrade a woman or oppress and cheat the weaker. Be honest, sincere, candid and generous, not only with one's time and money, but in one's opinions of other men. For it is now in College that the judgments of one's contemporaries are formed, and they are the ultimate tribunal in life. A man's reputation is continually forming among men, even those who may never have seen or spoken to him. Now is the time to look forward...
Professor Channing expressed no sympathy for the Boers. They were fighting not for independence, but for the right to oppress the Anglo-Saxons living in the Transvaal. The promise of naturalization was illusory and hedged round with so many restrictions that the Transvaal government could at any time make it invalid...