Word: interested
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting held last night in the Old South Church, Boston, in the interest of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, President Lowell was the first speaker. He introduced Booker T. Washington, the principal speaker, as a man who has done more than any other for the elevation of the Negro race, and a man who should be universally admired and respected...
Every one of the nominees has had a more or less prominent part in the activities of the College. They have done their tasks partly, in some cases wholly, for the honor of Harvard without thought of personal glory. Men take up the extra-curriculum work for their interest in it, but to do it well requires unselfish devotion and often means the sacrifice of other more pleasant things. To have been nominated for class office is in itself a mark of recognition; and to be elected is the highest reward that the class can give for work well done...
...invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest...
Liberty, Equality and Democracy are all means mistaken for ends. Liberty, which will be considered first, is of two distinct kinds: real liberty and legal liberty. The former is the kind that is of the greatest interest to men. Laws decrease legal liberty but increase real liberty. There are also two kinds of rights: legal and moral; but there are no such things as inalienable rights as maintained by Jefferson, Mill and George. Abraham Lincoln said: "No man has a right to do wrong." Equality is an equal distribution of wealth among the classes of society, and the equal distribution...
President Lowell will be the principal speaker at a meeting to be held in the Old South Church, Boston, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the interest of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. This will be President Lowell's first public address since his inauguration...