Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most brilliant of all. Yet the country needs faithful service in peace as well as in war, and Harvard men are unfaithful to the traditions of their predecessors if, as citizens, they do not array themselves against every from of injustice, selfishness and corruption in the state. Faithful citizenship involves sacrifices which are often too small to be appreciated and yet too large and frequent to be cheerfully borne, but through such sacrifices Harvard men may show the faithful patriotism which other Harvard men have shown before...
...through laws, then, can we hope for relief. What is there for the individual to do toward bettering wide-spread corruption? How can he be furnished with the deliberation, intelligence and courage of good citizenship? Propositions are many and varied for the improvement of the conditions sur-sounding the poor. Tammany, in fact, has an elaborate system whereby its followers are supplied with food, fuel and work; but the funds used in this way consist o hush-money drawn from gambling dives and houses of ill-fame. This money should be stopped at its source and never be allowed...
...interrupt its work in order either to give some of its students a good time or to swell a political triumph. It is most important for a University to foster patriotism; but it will do this best by insisting that patriotism is to be identified with the good citizenship for which it is aiming to train its students, rather than with demonstration of the torch-light order. There may be left to others who have nothing better to do. The idea that victory over Yale would result from having a larger number of students present or in walking through...
...that naturalized citizens of the United States shall be entitled when abroad to the same protection that is accorded native citizens, has been abused by a small but very trouble some class of foreigners who come to this country for no other purpose than to clothe themselves with our citizenship in order to escape the burdens of their original allegiance, and then return to their native countries. In our diplomacy many cases have occurred in which these so-called citizens have involved us in difficulties with foreign nations...
...conclusion Mr. Straus said that he does not advocate an abridgment of the American doctrines of citizenship and expatriation which are so consonant with principles of personal liberty, but that he does believe it advisable to eliminate from citizenship that class of persons who take advantage of the broad and general provisions of our naturalization laws, not for the purpose of residing in the United States, nor with the intention to respond to the duties of citizenship, but to return to their native country, and through their acquired citizenship escape the burdens of their native allegiance...