Word: making
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...large majority of Hindus, Chinese and Japanese besides leaders in mission work from all parts of the world--but on account of his work on the committee and his attendance at the Shanghai conference, he has been unable to accept. The general work of the committee will be to make a journey through all parts of China in order to visit the schools, missions, and medical institutions under the charge of the American Board, and to study their methods and the progress they have made during the last few years. As there is an enormous amount of territory...
...decides to undertake the construction of the boulevard. It is generally considered that now is the time for such an improvement, inasmuch as, if it is neglected longer, the erection of new buildings on the land, which would have to be removed in order to construct the avenue, would make the cost prohibitive...
...greed that care nothing for the neighbor, nothing for the state, and in their utter short-sightedness and folly cannot grasp the meaning of the President's constant warning that "we go up or down together," can see only their own immediate profit, marshal their forces at Albany to make a breach in the tenement house law, now here, now there, anything to let their avarice in. Every winter they have to be fought and public opinion held up to its responsibility. A single year of inattention, of over-confidence, and we should have ten years' work to do over...
...young men of today have got to fight it to a finish. New York will be, every growing city in the land--and more and more ours is getting to be a land of cities--will be what the young men of today make up their minds they shall be. And those twenty years--will tell the story of whether we shall last as a people, or not. Noblesse oblige! To those who have had the advantage of a college education falls the duty of leadership. Which...
...support the belief that the cure for other things than drunkenness lies in giving every man a chance of a decent and comfortable home, that at all events without that chance he will not be content and cannot be counted upon as a good citizen. What choice shall we make then? How shall we rate our fellow-citizens of tomorrow--in terms of money, or of men? If the former, perhaps you will make money. If the latter, without fail you will make men. Which...