Word: trusting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should be taught to think, speak and write upon pressing questions. Take for example the laws dealing with crime. Crime is not a misfortune. A criminal is a criminal. We need criminal laws of more common sense. A healthy, manly desire to exterminate crime must be developed. I trust we shall have the standard bye and bye that the best thing a man can do is not to defend criminals, but convict them. The ideas of public office must be raised. The highest fidelity is not the fidelity to the party of party members or leaders...
With the beginning of the new ear the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology has been transferred to the Corporation of the University. Heretofore the property belonging to the Museum has been held in trust by a Board of Trustees. The Museum (as annually stated in the Catalogue) has been "a constituent part of the University; but its relations to it have been affected by peculiar provisions." These provisions are now removed by the transfer of all the property held by the Trustees. The Museum will henceforth be directed by a faculty in place of a Board of Trustees...
...that the property of the Museum of Comparative Zoology was formerly vested in a Board of Trustees, and it was found desirable to transfer all the property held for the benefit of the Museum to the Corporation. Following this precedent the Trustees of the Peabody Museum have transferred their trust, believing that it will be as well for the Museum and far better for the University...
Resolved, That on behalf of the Harvard Divinity School we give forth this expression of our grief and sense of loss in the departure of our brother, and trust that his sterling worth and strong moral character may be an inspiration to courageous living and unselfish service to all who have known...
...appointment, to increased corruption (No. Am. 154: 691.) C. It would endanger our republican form of government. (1). It would lead to one of two things: (x) the development of a governing class, or (y) a strong, one-man government. (a.) In seeking several terms, the President must trust more and more either to the help of bosses and machines or to the love of the people. (b.) In the first the tendency is toward the stealing of the people's power by one class: in the second, the people transfer their power to a popular idol. (Bryce...