Word: humblest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...which is a normal and logical development of our times, should welcome reasonable laws which place wholesome restraints upon its activities, so that through competition or otherwise it will not be induced or forced to overstep the safeguards of industrial rights and block the highways of opportunity for the humblest citizen of the land. There can be no liberty without opportunity, and to the extent that opportunity is abridged, whether by the state or by cor- porate power, it is denial of liberty. It is oppression, and it is no less oppression when it emanates from organized capital or from...
...Henry F. Waters '55, more has been found about John Harvard than about almost any other man of colonial times. We know that he and all his kindred were tradesmen--butchers, cloth makers, coopers, goldsmiths--and that for several generations they lived in Southwark, one of the humblest quarters of London...
...creating such a literature in America was, no doubt, a great original thinker such as was afforded us in Emerson. Yet Longfellow rendered a service only secondary, in enriching and refining that literature and giving it a cosmopolitan culture, providing for it an equally attentive audience in the humblest log-cabins on the prairies or in the more distant literary courts of far away lands...
...demands upon the Hemen way Gymnasium, built many years ago, have grown to such proportions that it seems to me not an unreasonable suggestion that intended benefactors remember that here is a need. Comparison of the quarters of Harvard men with the Gymnasium facilities at the humblest of colleges is anything but favorable...