Word: question
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...forget that men--great men, many of them, but yet all mere men--framed it, in the light of their day; that everyone of them is dead; that now the Constitution is for us, the living, and not for them or their generation of the dead. So, the vital question is what we believe we need rather than what they believed they and their contemporaries needed; and, if you please to speculate about that, what you think they thought we would or might need...
...should we so completely lose ourselves in admiration of the Fathers, so glorify their wisdom and courage, by confessing that we are weak and foolish, and by demonstrating our timidity? If the Fathers had lacked the moral courage to consider even the question of the practicability and desirability of framing the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation would have been accepted as a frail bond of union. A tithe of the courage and independence required of them ought to suffice for us in the duty of considering whether there should be any amendment...
...facts, as everyone knows who reads. New York City has, roughly speaking, half the voters in the Empire State. This is their home environment. Physically and morally, it "makes all for unrighteousness." Is it a square deal for the republic? One young man, just out of college, answered that question for himself, upon the evidence before him, along in the eighties, and straightway started an investigation of slavery in the tenement cigar-making industry. The action he brought about was labeled unconstitutional then--if I remember right--the fashion in labels has changed since under compulsion of accumulated evidence...
...hear much of the slum. The slum is just a question of the per cent. you will take. If 5 per cent. there is no slum problem; if 25, it looms large. It pays to build bad tenements that wreck the home. That is the reason of the fight. As I said, it is just a question of greed and of the cold indifference that asks "Am I my brother's keeper?" In that war the generation that is coming has to take sides. Which side...
...member of the old Football Rules Committee, the members of the old committee and the one recently elected by the Intercollegiate Athletic Association will meet this morning and tomorrow at the Murray Hill Hotel, New York. The purpose of the meeting will be to consider the question of amalgamation of the two committees and if that is effected, as is expected, the consideration of changes in the rules will be discussed. In case the two committees unite, the only new man on the 1907 National Football Rules Committee will be Professor W. L. Dudley, in place of E. H. Curtiss...