Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Gompers said that labor unions do not desire to establish a uniform wage, but merely a minimum wage. No effort is made to limit production. The chief aim is to promote industrial peace and steadily improve the condition of working people. Unions seek to avoid strikes when possible; but it has been found that the unions best prepared to strike are those which have struck least...
...broad that no man can traverse the whole ground. Choice must be made. Who shall make it? We are compelled to answer: Let the college man choose for himself; let him consider his own tastes, the demands of his own after life. If we deny this and seek for a consensus of educated opinion as to what the college should prescribe, we are lost in a hopeless maze. If we are to be guided by authority, the authorities must agree. An examination of the catalogues of the leading colleges in the country shows the widest diversity of opinion on this...
...Every field is open if you seek the gate, and that once Opened, you can win power at will. You have found in your books, which are faithful, delightful companions, your remedy for loneliness, your solace for grief or pain, your freedom from tormenting cares, your subject for stimulating intercourse with your friends. Sharpen your tools and plough deep in this rich field of literature, art, science and philosophy, under the guidance of our noble teachers of Harvard University, who long to help you, but who can do it only if you choose...
...rising generation, he said, is destined to see in coming years a religious advance greater than ever before. Momentous questions are to be decided, as, for instance, that which confronts us in regard to those Oriental countries whose ignorant millions are dependent upon us. We seek an open door for commerce in the East; let us not pass by the door already open for the entrance of religion...
Another principle is that of the goodness of the universe. Christ felt that the universe is governed for good. He did not seek to escape the temptation and the cross, for he felt he lived in an order which was good. Again, one of Christ's principles is that the real test of a man is found in the direction of his moral sympathy. The man who sympathises with the efforts of a moral reformer and who tries to help him on however poorly, receives as great a spiritual reward as the man who may have a larger capacity...