Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...competition for both prizes will be open to all members of the University. The judges will be Dr. H. W. Morse, president of the club, J. F. Twombly '94, secretary of the National Esperanto Society, and E. K. Harvey, instructor in Esperanto at the Perkins Institution for the Blind...
...economics, to which one may appeal for support in economic theories just as one appeals to the facts and formulas of physics in arguing its theorems. In the broadest sense economics is a system through which the want of the people are satisfied. Its operation is not governed by blind force, as some people suppose, but by individual with at every stage. Its purpose is the production and distribution of wealth--the transformation of one form of wealth into another until an object is finally produced for the consumer...
...investigated before becoming too flagrant, bodies of state officers should be instituted, who should know the names and records of offenders. Furthermore, if fewer peddling licenses were issued, if police stations were closed to tramps who might better be confined in places where work was exacted, and if blind and crippled children were attended to early in life, we should find a great decrease in the number of these useless citizens...
...story of the man born blind, in which the next appears, shows, Bishop Carpenter said, the evolution of a human soul. First comes the outside influence, the moment when we see that life is a far more transcendent thing than we have supposed...
Then follows the third period in the evolution of the soul. As in the story the blind man was cast out by his friends for his adherence to convictions, so we may perchance become outcasts. But the moments of loneliness thus gained are the moments of illumination. Then come the visions of the soul, and God stands near to us. It is better to be with God in the wilderness than to be with the plaudits of men in the market place...