Word: children
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Athenian Democracy, which has served as an idol, though lacking the positive qualities of our modern government, the development of the State government over social conditions has gradually increase. Nowadays New York provides nurses and doctors for the public schools to look after the health of the children in order that they may not be handicapped in becoming good citizens; and when New York City builds new wharves, a second story is added to form recreation rooms for the poor. Is this not pure philanthropy on the part of the State, or better is it not the sign of awakened...
What then does equality among men mean? Certainly not that all men are born with equal powers. It is a well known fact that children in the same families and men in the same factories exhibit great diversity in scope of power. Democracy is not equality of all men, but equality of opportunity. No artificial restrictions should limit any man's power. Let the president hold his position through his inborn capacity, let the laborer be such through inability to rise. Freedom of opportunity is the ideal to be fought...
Such then is true democracy, and as such do we find it inconsistent with true reverence? It is argued that American children are not respectful junior reverent towards their parents, because of the democratic custom, now in vogue among parents, of suggesting what is to be done, not ordering. The true criterion of reverence is the attitude in later years. Never before were aged parents treated with so great kindness as today. Is this inconsistent with true democracy. The same relation between teacher and pupil has brought about far greater reverence than the old dictatory attitude...
...incessantly, get enough to eat, and must live in a state of wretchedness which no cave man ever knew. Ten million people in the United States are unable to obtain enough food to support mere working efficiency. They are, in other words, starving. Wretchedness itself is impersonated by the children in the southern textile mills, who, at the age of five, work 12 hours a day to earn ten cents...
...affiliated hospitals nearby, and several institutions, to which the Corporation has made offers of adjacent parts of the large plot of land belonging to the University, have accepted. The Good Samaritan Hospital, situated nearby, on the corner of Francis and Binney streets, is one of these affiliated hospitals. The Children's Hospital will be erected to the west of the Medical School, and the Infants' Hospital, in memory of Thomas Morgan Rotch '91, will also be built on part of the Medical School property. Preliminary sketches and plans for both these buildings have been drawn. A new Dental School building...