Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college men and the highest ideals and standards. Education is as much of a help in public service as in any other species of service, perhaps more so, because it requires breadth of view. The problem is to make the people appreciate that it is their government. A municipal branch of government has more to do with people than any other form of government, either the nation or the state. The problem is so to administer the municipal government that its services will be given alike to all its citizens because they are citizens, and not because they have...
...answered, "Politics is extremely interesting. It gives a chance to deal with larger problems of human life and larger issues than are met with in a professional career, and as a rule a person in politics will have to face larger administrative problems than in any other branch of life...
...hard to pick out public service as a profession, since local opinion and prejudice play such an important part; but the extension of foreign relations is opening a new door. This branch of service is going to be more and more important in the country. The State Department is now trying to develop them as a public career. The difficulty, of course, under any elective system is to make public service a career for any people, but efforts are under way to make the offices adaptable as a life work...
...University drive to solicit funds for the Cambridge branch of the American Red Cross closed last night when canvassers turned the money collected over to the committee. At present it is impossible to ascertain the exact amount received due to the fact that some of the canvassers have not as yet handed in the contributions which they collected. The money may be given or mailed to the committee at the Lampoon Building today...
...their homes through lack of funds. In many cases assistance will be given to the families as well as to the men themselves. The running expenses of the Cambridge chapter of the Red Cross are extremely low and none of the money collected will go towards upkeep of the branch or drive. To meet the expenses of caring for the wounded or sick soldiers, the Cambridge chapter needs a minimum of $3000, for the greater part of which it is dependent on the college drive...