Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...following American colleges and universities have contributed to the preparation of the present staff of the Bureau of Municipal Research of New York City: Amherst, Carleton, Chicago, Clark, Columbia, Cornell, DePauw, Harvard, Iowa, New York, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Smith, Tufts. Berlin, Halle, Leipsic and the Sorbonne have added touches here and there. Just what part did colleges have in fitting the college graduates on our staff for municipal research? During the college days, neither their instructors nor themselves had ever contemplated a work such as that in which they are now engaged. Some of them prepared for law, others for teaching...
...attraction offered by municipal research is due to the fact that it seems to promise a realization of the great American dream that usually grows dimmer and dimmer after college walls are left behind, viz: "Self-government for the benefit of all the governed." This dream will never come true simply because college men go into politics. Unless college training has radically changed within the last twelve months, it would be a civic tragedy to turn over the government of American cities to men chosen simply because they were college men. In talking to our professors, to our students...
...been done. It is the thing that is not generally contemplated when college men are urged to go into politics, but just as sure as watching the quarterback or left end will lose the football championship, so watching the mayor or comptroller or alderman will continue the evils of American municipal government. Just as in football, too, the test of the player is what he is able to do with the ball and with his team, so the test of the college man in politics is the extent to which he can advance the interests of his constituents; their interests...
...Farrell has resigned his post as chaplain of St. Paul's Catholic Club, having been appointed to the parish of St. John's in Canton, Massachusetts. He will be succeeded in the chaplainey of the Catholic Club by the Rev. C. A. Finn, who was graduated from the American College in Rome, five years ago, and has since filled the post of curate at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Salem...
...reading-room for general use, in which some 25,000 volumes are placed on open shelves accessible to all. Of these, 5000 volumes are reference books of various kinds permanently shelved here, 5300 volumes are United States documents, the complete file of which is constantly needed by students in American history, and finally, over 11,000 volumes are "reserved" books taken from the stacks at the request of instructors and kept here, that they may be easily accessible and equally useful to all. This purpose is realized only if all who consult the room consent to use the books...