Word: rising
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...convention of representatives of American colleges and universities will be held in the Marquette Club rooms in Chicago, May 3, for the purpose of organizing a National League of College Civil Service Reform Clubs. While it would be too much to say that our Harvard organization has given rise to this project, it may be said to have largely contributed to it. At that convention our University should be represented, and President Eliot, Professor Dunbar, Professor Norton and others are heartily in favor of sending a delegate from the University as well as one from the Harvard Club...
...susceptibility to undue influence. - (b) It would greatly increase the number of illiterate and unqualified voters: Forum II, 429; New Englander XLIII, 207. - (1) The women who would use it belong to the lowest classes in our cities. - (2) Competent women would not use it. - (c) It would give rise to lax laws and weaken the government: Forum IV, 1-5. - (1) Laws must be sanctioned by physical strength. - (2) The best governments are supported by a preponderance of physical force...
...cooling and condensation of vapor in the air. There are three different types which are classified roughly into three kinds, the cirrus, characterized by its swift motion and feathery appearance; the cumulus, composed of round heaped-up masses; and the stratus, or low ground clouds, such as rise from valleys at night...
...drunken class. We should give to these certainly as much sympathy as we would give to a fallen animal. If a horse falls in the street, there are many willing hands to help him up. These vicious people in the slums are fallen, but they can be helped to rise. The third class, the criminal, is the hardest to arouse any sympathy for. Men regard the criminal as an outlaw, and think no punishment too severe for him. This is not the way to stop crime. Every one knows that the prospect of suffering does not prevent a man from...
...only through such combinations that great capitalistic projects could be realized. This large employment of capital made increased demand for labor. Second, he had assumed that association of employers can control wages. But if wages are anywhere, put higher than what exist elsewhere, prices must also rise, the sale of goods will fall off, and the result of these inflated wages will inevitably be to throw workmen out of employment. Third, he had assumed that there was a necessary antagonism between employers and employees. Yet to admit such is to admit that a social revolution is in order...