Word: neighboring
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...simplest, narrowest field of political activity is discussion with your neighbor. The widest field at present, with the possible exception of work in a few high offices difficult to reach, is offered by newspaper writing or management. If the college graduate realizes that he has thus far only 'learned to study'; if he combines a desire to learn with a capacity for receiving strong impressions and a real sympathy with the people; if he is willing to wait a long while, and perhaps indefinitely, for wealth, I should advise him to seek political and other useful activity in newspaper work...
...essential facts of community needs and government results. Checks and panaceas of every description have been tried--everything but a constant light; everything but consecutive, cumulative publicity of essential facts. . . . No corrupt or incompetent official will put poison in a baby's milk, pile garbage on his neighbor's doorstep, put his hands in his neighbor's pocket, when his neighbor is looking...
...Bureau of Municipal Research aims so to mass the facts of government as to produce artificially the light and the neighbor's eye which will inhibit the desire to misgovern. For the execution of this program, college men are needed. When they do not sincerely love to be intelligent, they at least like to seem to be intelligent. I can conceive of no greater service that can be rendered by the Intercollegiate Civic League than to spread among its membership the idea that no intelligence is negotiable in matters politic but intelligence as to government ends and community needs. When...
...dates of their deaths. From these a few other matters may safely be inferred; his Puritanism, for example, his feeble health, his interest in learning. Still other matters are conjectured by the author, such as that it was William Shakespeare who introduced John Harvard's father, his neighbor in Southwark, to the Stratford girl whom he married. These guesses are for the most part put forth with due reserve and supported with ingenuity. The "Life" is, as a whole, a worthy attempt to give definiteness and to do honor to a figure to whom we all owe a grateful reverence...
...books to its library in Phillips Brooks House: "Democracy and Social Ethics," and "Newer Ideals of Peace," by Jane Addams; "How to Help," by Mary Conyngton; "The Spirit of Democracy," by Chas. F. Dole; "Christianity and Socialism," by Washington Gladden; "Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation," by Florence Kelley; "The Neighbor," by N. S. Shaler; "The Jungle," by Upton Sinclair; "On the Trail of the Immigrant," by E. A. Steiner; "The City Wilderness" and "Americans in Process," by R. A. Woods...