Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Right Honorable James Bryce, M.P., will deliver the second of the Godkin lectures on, "The Study of Popular Governments" this evening in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock. Mr. Bryce will discuss the proper methods of studying the working of free governments...
...GODKIN LECTURES. II. The Study of Popular Governments. Rt. Hon. James Bryce, M. P. Sanders Theatre, 8 P. M. Seats on the floor and first gallery will be reserved for members of the University till...
...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...
...Bryce said: It is necessary that the men who are to be in public service should study politics as a science. The times are now more propitious for such study than ever before, for the material is more abundant. Now nearly every civilized nation furnishes this material. Compare the materials with which the writer of the Federalist Papers worked and the vast material which constitutional governments now furnish. With the exception of Russia and Montenegro there is no civilized nation which does not have some form of popular government...
...Bryce will give the second of the series of five lectures tomorrow evening...