Word: americans
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hanfstaengl '09, president of the Deutscher Verein, will introduce the speakers. About one hundred guests are expected to be present, among whom will be Heinrich Gebhard, the well-known planist, President Ernst F. Henderson, of the Boston Deutsche Gesellschaft, Mr. A. von Schroeder, general manager of the Hamburg American Steamship Company, Ignaz Gaugengigl, Herr Listemann, former leader of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Judge Otto Neitzel, Dr. Edmund von Mach, and Dr. Paul Grossmann...
Professor Clemen gave his last lecture Saturday. In a few words of farewell, he expressed his gratitude to President Eliot, the Faculty, the students of the University, and the American public. At the conclusion of the lecture, President Eliot said...
...there is something else for which we are indebted to Professor Clemen. It is for setting before us the worth of art and the artistic spirit in national culture. There is no lesson which the American people need more than this. He has been teaching, too, that great art meets the needs of leading people, their desires, hopes and aspirations. This is a lesson, too, which our whole nation needs...
...Bureau of Municipal Research, "Attempts at reform have failed in New York and elsewhere because the Republican and Democratic Tammany Halls of our cities have had inside information and have been able to make black look white because the general public was not informed. Reform is discredited in American cities because its devotees have informed neither themselves nor the public as to the essential facts of community needs and government results. Checks and panaceas of every description have been tried--everything but a constant light; everything but consecutive, cumulative publicity of essential facts. . . . No corrupt or incompetent official will...
...negotiable in matters politic but intelligence as to government ends and community needs. When college men once have this feeling, their pride as citizens and as men of general intelligence will lead them to ask questions and to head movements necessary to secure efficiency in the government of American cities...