Word: man
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...servant of the people, he said, must be one of them to appreciate their needs, to understand their feelings, and to be able to represent them honestly. The best test of a man's real worth for public capacity, and one of its most broadening influences, is contact with common life, for the intellectual and moral force of the American people is the greatest that the world has ever seen. The American soldier, standing as the does for self-sacrificing devotion to the republic, is a good example of the attitude that should be taken in public life...
During the last century it has been the politician rather than the statesman who has been developed, because the problems have been few and domestic. This type of man and the older man who has spent his energies on private enterprise and whose opinions have been narrowed, are not the men to make righteous law for these ninety, millions of people. It is before the student statesman with true character and willingness to give himself up entirely to the public good, to deal with the greater and broader questions which have arisen in the last few years...
...last elemental obligation which rests on every man in public capacity is that he shall not represent any interest but the interest of the people. The conception of the real relation between business and the people is just coming into view. It is cause of the republic that should be upheld above private interest no matter what...
...would seem as if, the Faculty assumed in each man a certain Jekyll and Hyde dual composition of character. Those nobler qualities of the Jekyll side, desire to succeed; to master and to win are to be directed to the studies alone, while the baser Hyde characteristics, half-heartedness, hypocrisy of purpose and the famous Harvard indifference are to be exercised only on the sport. Isn't this a bit unreasonable? In a communication the other day by Mr. Derby we are led to believe that from those absences which occur at the end of a major sport season...
...name for himself in oratory. Entering a law office, he was soon admitted to the bar, and practiced law until his election in 1899 to the United States Senate, of which he was at that time the youngest member. He is the author of "The Russian Advance," "The Young Man and the World," "History of the Philippines," and has also contributed to many of the leading magazines...