Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enjoyments of this hour so full of pleasure, will never be forgotten. And in parting from you now, let me express the earnest wish that Harvard alumni may always honor the venerable institution which has honored them, and that no man who forgets or neglects his duty, as a citizen, and to American citizenship, shall ever find his Alma Mater here. [Loud Applause...
...speak of the President of the United States, I desire to mention as the most interesting, pleasant and characteristic feature of our system of government the nearness of the people to their president and all their high officials. The close view given the citizens of the acts and conduct of those to whom they have entrusted their interests, serves as a regulator and check upon temptation in official life; and it teaches that diligence and faithfulness are the true measures of public duty. [Loud applause, cheers, and cries of "Good! good."] Such a relation between the people and their president...
...Each age in history must be conscious of all human history in whose embrace it is held, and of the vast eternity in which all the history of this world is all the time living, as a cloud swims in the limitless sky. The christian in the church, the citizen in the State, the institution in the Commonwealth. Everywhere you have the principle of elemental life, the principle that every life, except the greatest lives in its element, the particle in the universal, the eternal in the eternal, that whether they be actually conscious of it or not, all things...
...prizes in declamation occurs in Sanders Theatre, and judging from the ability of the speakers, and the nature of the selections, a very interesting contest may be expected. The reproach is often made against Harvard and other colleges that the art of public speaking so indispensable to the American citizen, is shamefully neglected; but the custom of holding prize declamations frees Harvard to a certain extent from this reproach. The competition is always close, while the interest taken by the students at large shows that the importance of this branch of education is greatly appreciated at Harvard. We feel confident...
...higher education of women. By the terms of this gift the heads of the department at Wellesley are to have "Sabbatical years," after the manner of Harvard professors. Says the Cambridge Tribune: "It seems most fitting that the means for all this should have come from a citizen of Cambridge, the success of whose great university is owing in no small measure to the self-sacrificing efforts and direct benefactions of women from the time of Lucy Downing to Mrs. Sever...