Word: citizens
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Last year President Roosevelt urged the members of the Intercollegiate Civic League to take an intelligent, disinterested and practical part in the everyday duties of the average citizen. At present it is impossible for intelligent men to take an intelligent part in the duties of citizenship, because city records are so kept that they either tell falsehoods or only a small part of the truth necessary to intelligent judgment. If the presidents of the colleges above mentioned were to be sent to Boston to serve as the small commission which President Eliot urges to reform municipal government in the United...
...cause of freedom in England; Samuel Adams, who organized the Committee of Correspondence and helped the cause of freedom in America; Increase Mather, long president of the College, and the man who secured the new charter from William and Mary; Thomas Hutchinson, in his day the most eminent citizen of the country...
President Eliot will give a public address tomorrow evening under the auspices of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union on "The Free Citizen." The address, which will be given at 7.30 o'clock at the hall of the Christian Union, 48 Boylston street, Boston, will be open to the public. The Social Service Entertainment Troupe Committee will give a short program of violin and vocal music, with piano accompaniment, in connection with the address...
...Harvard's alumni give her freedom of financial action. Let them stand behind these leaders of the University, especially behind President Eliot, the foremost citizen of this country. Only in this way can the promise of our scholarship ripen into the welcome fruits of performance...
...leadership of public-spirited private citizens is very essential to the maintenance of good government and the hearty co-operation of every citizen is also needed. Every member of a community should be responsible for the actions of its officers, not merely by voting, on election day, but by keeping in constant touch with the acts of these officials and seeing that they do not misuse their power...