Word: citizen
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...person as himself. But the less his merit the greater their bounty, and thus could they measure what was due to them by their generosity to him. The name and fame of fair Harvard were not theirs alone, and he had always had his share, as an American citizen, in its honorable name and fame. He felt the honor that had been conferred upon him, and with it a responsibility, for in the title was a new claim for upright and honorable action. If not a son of Harvard, he was her adopted son, and he felt the sense...
...under tutelage as well as under tuition, had some responsibility for his behavior. But the elective system presupposes that the student is an adult able to take care of himself and responsible for his own conduct in the same way and to the same extent as any other citizen." Now, inasmuch as the ordinary citizen is not compelled, early in the morning, to "run and worship God" on week-days; nor on Sundays to "attend morning service and remain during the entire service," the World fails to see why we Harvard citizens should be obliged to do so. It blames...
...YORK. - (99 students.) - Every person has a right to vote who has been a citizen for ten days, and an inhabitant of the State for one year, and a resident of the county four months and of the district thirty days, all next preceding the election, and is not interested in any bet concerning the result of the election...
...readers who have just come of age, or who will do so before November, the duty of qualifying themselves to vote at an election in which the best interests of the country are so deeply concerned. For this purpose we have made, from Prof. Parsons's "Rights of a Citizen of the United States," the following resume of the qualifications required in those States from which most of our students come. In all the States a person must be a citizen of the United States, twenty-one years old, and must take a prescribed oath to support the Constitution...
According to the Record the Yale class of '76 enjoys an unenviable reputation at New Haven. A "distinguished citizen" recently referred to them as follows...