Word: latent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Trusts are not harmful. - (a) They can never maintain abnormal prices. - (1) Competition, latent or active, is always a check. - (2) Too great increase of prices lessens demand. - (b) Profits are enlarged by cheapening cost of production not by raising prices. - (c) Regime of combination is less harmful than one of free competition: Forum, 8:67 - (d) Trusts differ from corporate and individualistic forms of industry only in size and complexity. - (e) Popular prejudice is illogical. - (1) Classes most injured by competition are loudest in denouncing trusts...
...pervasive essence always in itself beautiful, not always so in the shapes which it informs, but even then full of infinite suggestion. In literature it is what we call genius, an insoluble ingredient which kindles, lights, inspires and transmits impulsion to other minds, wakens energies in them hitherto latent, and makes them startlingly aware that they too may be parts of the controlling purpose of the world. A book may be great in other ways than as a lesson in form, and it may be for other qualities that it is most precious...
...have any latent boating spirit in him, the natural result is that he will be found a candidate for his college torpid (which correspond to our freshmen crews), or, if not physically fitted for rowing, on the banks running with them, or at least in the college barge lending their efforts the encouragement of his presence. Nor is the undergraduate, nor indeed the sport-loving public of England at large, deprived of an opportunity of watching the 'varsity crews when they have discontinued training on the college courses, and gone to Putney for the three weeks of final preparation...
...hold it to be very deplorable that there is such misunderstanding and even latent antagonism, between men who uphold the claims of the body and those who uphold the claims of the mind. There is no call for it: both lay emphasis on a different means, but both really have the same end in view, and would find, if they threw away their hostile feelings, that the different means were not incompatible, but that all are needed. So long as men insist on their own views and present inclinations, the University will tend to go from one extreme...
...definite move has been made towards restoring the Trophy Room to its proper condition. We believe that there is a strong, though possibly latent, sentiment in the University about this, and that much regret is felt over the neglect. It is no trifling matter. The Trophy Room is by no means an unimportant institution. Few features of the University receive so much attention from visitors, and, during the summers especially, the number who enter there to look over Harvard's records is very large. One summer a record of the attendance was kept, and it was found that over four...