Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...More leisure for workingmen is very desirable. In it lies their main hope of progress in: (a) Health. (b) Intelligence. (c) Good citizenship. Gunton' pp. 240-51, 373-7. Congr. Globe, 2nd session, 40th Congr...
...Longfellow then introduced Prof. Thayer, of the law school, who spoke on the Dawes bill. This bill gives the Indian the right to hold land and also the right of citizenship. The president is authorized to have the reservation surveyed and a part allotted to each member of the tribe. The Indian may be compelled to accept the land and cannot part with it for twenty-five years. The remaining land is bought by the government and sold to out-siders and money is placed in the U. S. treasury to pay for the education of the tribe. The other...
...principles and methods of the Knights of Labor are in keeping with the institutions of our country. The order also tends to train the laborer into capacity for better citizenship.- Paper by J. G. Brooks, Sept...
...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...
...education should be separated by any space or distance from the ways that lead to public place. Surely the splendid destiny which awaits patriotic effort in behalf of our country will be the sooner reached when the men of education and our best thinkers, deem it a duty of citizenship to actively and practically engage in public affairs. (Applause.) The disinclination of our best men of education to mingle in political matters, thus consequently leaving all political activity in the hands of those who have but little respect for the student and the scholar in politics, are not the most...