Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...afternoon at 2 o'clock in Tremont Temple, a mass meeting will be held on the subject of "Education for Citizenship. President Eliot will speak at this mass meeting, as will also Governor Guild, Mayor Fitzgerald, President Jordan of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University, and the Hon. G. H. Martin, State Secretary of Education...
...federation will be non-partisan and purposes to serve as a bond of union between those members in American universities who believe in the study of public affairs as a means of increasing interest among students in the duties of citizenship and of raising the standards of politics in the United States...
...most important lessons to be taught, said Mr. Moors, is citizenship, and in teaching it the instructor must preach the gospel of work, and must convince his pupils of the vital importance of good men becoming politicians. Mr. Munroe advocated small classes, and emphasized the necessity that children today should receive a truly liberal education, physical, mental and moral...
...Garfield said in part: The success of any activity depends upon the character of the individuals who undertake it; if the body politic is to be strong the individuals composing it must be correspondingly strong. The requisites for the successful discharge of the duty of citizenship are four--intelligence, common sense, honesty, and courage,--and a man who possesses all of these is certain to be a factor for good in the community, rather than for evil. The same qualifications make the successful officeholder, for he is simply a trustee for the individuals who have elected him. Every...
...appreciative audience at the Union last night, Mr. Curtis guild, Jr., '81, Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, delivered his address on "Some Dangers of a Democracy." Mr. guild began his address by speaking of the great privilege American citizenship conveys at this particular time. The country has nothing to fear from without. Its only danger is from within. The citizens of this country who are indifferent to politics, who shun public duties, who avoid the stress of elections, are the modern traitors, as dangerous and evil as the traitors of history. The country needs strong young men who will give richly...