Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the kaiser-by-grace-of-god who declared in 1905: "We are the salt of the earth," to the American Bar Association committee on citizenship who quite recently formulated a credo: "I believe that we Americans have the best government that has been created" smug pride of nation still persists, but it is steadily and increasingly challenged by Jeremiads such as Spengler's Decline of the West, Einstein's scorn of U. S. intelligence, Siegfried's despair of U. S. materialism. Just how science and the machine have affected civilization; just what the possibilities are of self-destruction, "decline...
...mayoral election had seemed friendly horse play to the Princetonians, but in a presidential election they were not to be trifled with. Their citizenship, mostly newborn, surged within them. Their patriotism, not unmixed with less grandiose emotions common to young-manhood everywhere in football season, mounted to heights that made police reserves from Trenton seem necessary to the peace of Princeton. False fire alarms were sent in. A student mob of riotous proportions assembled. Party banners were torn down and up. A passing motor bus and all its passengers received a thoroughgoing shake on Nassau street. Dean Mauss strode...
Scattered here and there in the simple sun parlor of a private house the first students began to learn their Christian duties of citizenship. The next year, an uncompleted hotel at Claremont, three miles north of Pomona, was given to the college and the students were assembled. In 1894, 47 students were graduated. It soon became difficult to cling to the ideal of a small college. Nevertheless Pomona firmly shut its doors yearly in the face of all but 750 students. But if there were two colleges? Later, perhaps, three? On the coast of the Pacific another Oxford, a group...
Last year her petition for citizenship was refused by a Chicago District Court. Later the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this decision, directed the granting of citizenship, on the ground that Mme. Schwimmer was naturally disqualified from bearing arms by reason...
...Ellen C. Bonaparte. The preference in choosing the student to whom the award is to be made is given to students who have demonstrated an interest in the study of American government and who give promise of helping in after life to promote higher standards in government and citizenship. The scholarship is awarded at the end of his Junior year to that member of the class concentrating in Government who, without regard to financial need, has the highest academic standing in that subject...