Word: trade
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is an abundance of good advice available at Harvard for all who seek it. But it is comparatively seldom that an opportunity is offered to receive counsel from a man who is not a professional instructor, from a man who is himself practicing the trade about which he speaks. The Law School of Phillips Brooks House offers such an opportunity this evening. Mr. Hill is both a practicing lawyer of wide reputation, and a man whose active political work has given the broadest public viewpoint...
...vocation faces so much opposition from advisors as a purely personal work, for it embodies all the hazards of failure. Teaching is this pastoral personal opportunity. Do you know a man who is eating his heart out in an uncongenial trade into which custom has forced him? Might he not be teaching? The sooner the better, let the possible misfit and his friends investigate the work of the boarding schools...
...strengthening his own financial and literary status, the student should take care not to trade on the good name of his University. Regrettable as it is, there have been always those, ready, for the pecuniary reward, to feature the life and customs of their college in an undesirable light. No matter how great the price, it is not worth selling the esteem and regard of one's associates...
International finance and economic development have become so complex and interwoven that any injury to the trade or industry of one country is sure to do harm to every other. The belief that a "place in the sun" is constituted by holding colonies has long since been discarded by economists along with other such mercantilist notions. It is too evidently still held today as a part of the "governmental mind" so brilliantly analyzed by Lowes Dickinson. It is a remnant of that habit which leads men to think of nations, of certain colored portions...
...speaker traced the course of the two ordinary occupations of a state, that of trade and that of war. Industrilaism has trimphed within states, but between states warfare has been the means by which nations have grown in wealth and power. The state in power has no ideas of responsibility to the others until a more powerful one conquers it. Just as long as there is this strong, predatory nation in power, the militarist basis must exist, but, contrary to the idea of many, the whole system, not one nation alone, should be put under indictment. In view of this...