Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watch the development in this country of intercollegiate conferences on public affairs of which the Yale-Harvard-Princeton conference is a conspicuous example. The years of college training are an invaluable formative period for the younger generation in preparing for the duties and responsibilities of constructive citizenship. Whether upon graduation the student finds his life work in the professions or in the public service he will derive in calculable benefits from contacts and serious discussion of national and international problems with his fellows in other institutions of learning, with men of experience and mature judgement in various walks of life...
...years ago in Hamburg, Germany, son of a Russian Mennonite preacher and teacher who took a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and is now a professor of German literature at Bethel College. The elder Warkentin is currently trying to have the Supreme Court pass on his application for citizenship, which has been refused because, abiding by the tenets of his religion, he will take no oath to bear arms. Son John will take no such oath either. He studied at Brown University under Dr. Leonard Carmichael, went along with Carmichael to the University of Rochester, where he expects...
Forced to conduct business from Paris by telephone, Kraus recently returned to Cambridge. He said last night that he plans to "stay here for keeps," and has taken out his first citizenship papers...
...government of public opinion," and that "a forum for free and untrammeled discussion of public questions" is one of the essentials of any democracy. He further stated that the Harvard Congress "has within it the possibility of exerting a powerful influence in aiding its members in their preparation for citizenship and useful public activity...
...Shaggy Steve Vasilakos, whose peanut stand at the corner of the White House grounds would long ago have been removed by the police had not Mrs. Roosevelt intervened, last week expressed his gratitude. He announced that after 28 years in the U. S. he had finally applied for citizenship...