Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hanford has been the acme of cooperation. Certainly, also, because of Harvard's Jaissez-faire attitude toward the student, it would be a mistake for the Council to attempt to discipline his private affairs. Harvard is too much a place for individualized learning to favor such practical training in citizenship as the ideal student council is supposed to afford. For students in those colleges which impose strict regulations upon undergraduate life, it is right that they have a loud voice in forming and administering their own codes. But this, we hope, will never be necessary at Harvard, and therefore...
...restrictions on the private lives of the students at Harvard are kept to the very minimum, and if the University is willing to handle the details of punishing offenders, the Council should rather be grateful than resentful. The idealistic conception of student government as a training for democracy and citizenship in the future seems to me out of place at Harvard College. Students have come to Harvard--or at least should have come to Harvard--primarily to be students, and the Student Council should consider it its main duty to see that they are aided in every way as students...
Thomas Mann, great & good German novelist (The Magic Mountain, Joseph in Egypt) who voluntarily quit his native land in 1933 when Hitler came to power announced he would apply for U. S. citizenship this week...
...than an ability to show that one or more ancestors bore arms against George III. Belonging to the organization is a matter of considerably more moment. In addition to its routine political activities of viewing with alarm, the D. A. R. runs innumerable pilgrimages, student loan plans, charities, better citizenship contests, scholarships, historical shrines and exhibits...
This novel argument the Commander used in presenting to the House a bill to confer Palestine citizenship upon "oppressed European Jews" who might benefit from it. For example, according to Locker-Lampson, any European Jews now being mistreated in Austria would be enabled by this bill to assume "extraterritorial citizenship in Palestine," and they could then apply in Vienna for the aid of His Britannic Majesty's consul general...