Word: civics
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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General Wood bases his plea for these camps on the ground that "military training is as important as training in civic life." This principle was undoubtedly true in the Dark Ages, but it is as unquestionably untrue now, and in fact nowhere more untrue than in the United States of America...
...Intercollegiate Civic League has offered a prize of $100 for the best essay on the following subject...
...society has recently affiliated itself with the American Economic Association; has received and accepted an invitation to join the Intercollegiate Civic League, which, with headquarters at Columbia, is composed of 64 clubs, both civic and economic in nature, which are scattered among the various universities all over the United States; and has become a member of the newly-formed International Polity Association of Harvard...
...knowledge of the issues of today is in line with this modernist movement. And the project begins auspiciously with an address by Professor Taft, who has not only been in the current of things but has guided its trend. He comes to plead the necessity of the increase of civic interest among students. The authority of so eminent a jurist, if not the eagerness of undergraduates, should give him a numerous and well-disposed audience...
...Yale University will address the members of the Speakers' Club and their guests this evening at 6.30 o'clock. The speech will be in connection with a banquet that is to be given at the clubhouse. Mr. Taft's subject will be "The Necessity of Increasing Civic interest Among Students and the Valuable Aid Which the Speakers' Club can Render in this Respect." In addition to the undergraduate and graduate members of the club there will be present a large number of guests including prominent members of the Faculty...