Word: possession
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...argued further that the right of the employer to buy his material where he might please has been disregarded by the unions, as has also his right to possess his property in safety and to use it in a legitimate way. Reference was made to the Homestead strike, and to the Pullman strike as evidence of the violation of this right...
...German, that their true function was not merely to teach the German language, or even German literature, but to give our students a true conception of what Germany stands for in modern civilization, what her ideals have been, what she has contributed to the world's best intellectual possessions. For this purpose books alone do not suffice. It was thought that this country, of all countries, should possess a German Museum in the wider sense of the word, since the great majority of the American people are of Germanic origin, and it is here that in modern homes descendants...
...thousand volumes. These ten thousand volumes would have a book plate of their own and would form in the Harvard library a special collection of works on the history of Germany and of German civilization. They would be but a small portion of what we should hope to possess some day on these subjects, but, at least as a nucleus, I should be glad to have them constitute a memorial recalling the visit of His Royal Highness Prince Henry, and to be known as the Hohen-zollern collection. My hope is that they may serve to show that...
...pride to its editors. There is scarcely a dull page in it. The editorials are well written and do not force the laugh too much. The drawings--particularly the centrepage--are executed with exceptional ability and are appropriate to the subjects; and the quibs and longer pieces of satire possess a sort of spontaneity that has become of late very rare. The "Guide to Courses," "Baedeker's Harvard" and "Chem. 3," although none of them are essentially new, nevertheless are more than justified by the originality of their treatment. The last named particularly is pre-eminently amusing and provokes...
...allowed to receive the degree, and that for a college to appoint instructors only with such qualifications is snobbery and sham, seem hardly consistent. Nevertheless the main point of the article--an appeal to value more the individuality of a man and his abilities than parchment he may possess--appeals to anyone's sentiment and sense--and is advanced with straightforward convincing earnestness...