Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hoped that all the new members of the University will attend this meeting, for by doing so they will come in closer contact with the high administrative authorities of the University. In addition they will hear Major Higginson, donor of the Union and of Soldiers Field, speak...
...sound, and we need to observe it especially here where we are dealing with the foundation of men's characters and souls. Our acts and thoughts and words here not only have lasting effect upon ourselves, but also upon the characters of all those with whom we come in contact in any way whatsoever, so we should act rightly, think rightly, and speak thoughtfully
...revenue is independent of the morality of the management. Indeed it may be greater where the management is not too scrupulous. The stockholder, therefore, is essentially in the position of the absentee landlord; and the suffering falls on the persons with whom his corporation is brought into contact,--as it falls upon the tenantry or the slave gangs on an estate,--not because the stockholder is malicious or hard, or even indifferent, but because he is an absentee. He is not himself responsible for the management, or ever aware of its problems...
...main managing his own property and that of his family, and he would have found it much harder to live up to his principles if he had been conducting his affairs for the benefit of a multitude of stockholders with whom he never came into contact, and to whom he could, therefore, not explain his position...
...statement that "in his profession Phillips Brooks stands as the most influential person in the history of America." The exaggeration may be overlooked in so sincere an admirer as the author, especially since the sincerity of his admiration has inspired this study. Every Harvard man who ever came in contact with that great personality, and those of the present generation who are living in the tradition of his name, will be interested in this account of his early days of obscurity...