Word: states
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more important to the well-being of a state than the increased production of commodities, is the upholding of public morals. We are on the crest of a commercial age. Our foreign commerce alone exceeds our past records, three thousand, three hundred millions of dollars for the past year, and year by year it will mount higher, if we do not lose sight of economic laws and of the moral and human principles in which these laws in the last analysis are embedded...
...through competition or otherwise it will not be induced or forced to overstep the safeguards of industrial rights and block the highways of opportunity for the humblest citizen of the land. There can be no liberty without opportunity, and to the extent that opportunity is abridged, whether by the state or by cor- porate power, it is denial of liberty. It is oppression, and it is no less oppression when it emanates from organized capital or from organized labor. The fundamental principles of individual liberty lie at the basis of our political system, and no more sacred duty rests upon...
...interests is making excellent progress, under the direction of an Executive Council, and that the Department is ready to heartily grasp its hands. Further than this, the Department, upon a request laid before it by the President, has warmly endorsed a plan to establish commercial instruction in the leading state universities and other institutions in states where no such universities exist, so that the science, as well as all the arts of commerce may be taught to the youth of the country
Carroll Atwood Wilson 1L., of Westfield Mass., has been appointed Rhodes scholar from Massachusetts for the term 1908-1911. The committee which made the appointment consisted of President Eliot, chairman, G. H. Martin, Secretary of the State Board of Education, Wm. Orr, Principal of the Springfield High School, A. E. Stearns, President of Phillips Andover Academy, and F. C. Ferry, Dean of Williams College...
...objection to this state of affairs is met by the reply that if it were not for these outside people the lecturer or the musicians would have but a slender audience. We are 10th to admit this. For we believe that many a student is kept away because he has learned by experience that it is scarcely worth while to take a back seat in a lecture, no matter how interesting, when every day he hears others without inconvenience. But we would not for a moment intimate that we advocate the exclusion of the public from lectures and concerts...