Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Henry C. Moses, a prominent citizen of Exeter, N. H., recently presented the Robinson Female Seminary, in Exeter, with a valuable collection of architectural designs and sculpture...
...duty of the patriotic citizen to observe party ties in municipal elections...
GREEK 10 Reviews. - Artisans, Trade, Professions, Travel, Games, Athenian Citizen at 3.30 p. m.; Senate, Assembly, Officials, Courts, Army and Navy, Weights, Measures, and Coins at 7.15 p. m. in Manter 2. Fee for each $3. Gentlemen will confer a favor by not opening accounts for reviews...
...February number of the Forum, Professor Francis G. Peabody contributes a thoughtful article on "A Case of Good City Government." Dresden is the model which is described. The first instinct of an American citizen is to act; the first instinct of a German citizen is to obey and as far as concerns the essentials of good city government, one feels that in the best German cities one has the most substantial administration of the world. The German method offers a contrast to that of the United States since the former is government for the sake of the city...
...rest of the article is devoted to a discussion of the various objections to the German system which present themselves most prominently to a citizen of the United States. In finishing, Professor Peabody remarks that the American people, who are certainly the quickest-witted of the nations, will not long be so dull as to keep a protective tariff on our way of municipal work for the sake of party politics. It may be a wise policy for us to shut out of the country the importation of good Saxon stockings, but at least we might have free trade...