Word: local
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Civic Conscience is today outside of the local agencies of the great National parties and so long as those parties depend for their maintenance upon patronage and subsidies from private corporations, it will remain outside. If it would be actively represented in Civic politics and impress itself upon the community as the National parties do, it must have its own agency of expression. It is because of thorough organization and discipline that the National party can afford to ignore the Conscience of the community and to ride rough-shod over its supplications and protests. It is not a bit afraid...
...problems of the American com- monwealth are today peculiarly those of the City. The issues that interest and agitate the public are increasingly local and the battle-grounds that have peculiar significance are those of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and other great centres of population...
...abuses of popular sovereignty. To the Reactionary it is the victory of Socialism, a fatal blow at the rights of property. But there must be a middle course between these antagonistic positions and the consideration of this important and pressing issue has made the direct representation of Conscience in local politics peculiarly essential. Conscientiousness is a normally conservative quality and while it is intolerant of oppression it is amenable to reason. If it will it can treat Municipal Ownership dispassionately and in the interests of public welfare, of financial stability and of local exigency. But whether the expansion...
Shooting will be resumed on Soldiers Field in March, or as soon as weather permits. Another intercollegiate shoot will be held May 9 at Riverside, and, besides a few minor shoots with local gun clubs there will be dual shoots with Yale and Princeton at New Haven and Princeton respectively...
...here with Columbia on February 29. Exhibition meets will probably be held with Andover on January 11, with St. Mark's on January 15, with Amherst on March 7; and there will be two other meets with either Yale, Dartmouth, or Exeter, as well as meets with several other local schools...