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...Bryce was introduced by President Eliot, who said that this was the first of a permanent series of lectures relating to government and civic duty. The lectureship bears the name of a great journalist, a man of unusual vigor, sincerity, and candor, who throughout his life pursued high ideals of public duty and liberty. His pen was strong and his writings were often irritating to his opponents. To do him honor, his friends, many of whom differed from him politically, have endowed this lectureship. It is particularly appropriate that the man who is to inaugurate these lectures should...
President Eliot will go to New York the latter part of this week to take part in the meeting of the executive committee of the National Civic Federation which will be held on Friday and Saturday, December 18 and 19. This committee, composed of twelve representatives of the employers of labor, twelve labor leaders, and twelve men representing the general public, was formed a few years ago in order that there might be a competent board of arbitration to settle labor difficulties. The coming conference is one of the regular semi-annual meetings for the discussion of general business...
...charitable work in Cambridge or Boston. Thirty or forty men, for instance, are sent annually to assist with boys' clubs and men's clubs at the Riverside Alliance. Other men go to assist at the East End Christian Union, at the Francis E. Willard Settlement, at Dennison House, the Civic Service House and other settlements in Boston. On T. Wharf, at the foot of Atlantic Avenue, the Association superintends a reading-room for the fishermen and sailors who come into Boston harbor, and several Harvard men by giving there monthly entertainments and smokers keep in touch with the life about...
...contest. Besides these, several thousand qualified voters are registered in the different universities and colleges as graduate or undergraduate students, yet it is an undoubted and regrettable fact, that a considerable proportion of the New York college graduates never exercise the suffrage, that most precious and least irksome of civic functions. To persuade these college-bred citizens to register and vote; to make plain to them the magnitude of the issue and the value of the individual; to supply them with all necessary information about the election law and the forms to be observed by voters: this is the first...
...outlined the application of idealistic civic and social conceptions in French politics and pointed out how in French political ideas both the greatest conservatism and the greatest progressiveness have been present...