Word: citizen
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...animal gratifications do not depend upon the game, to disagree with his verdict that it is "unfit for college use." In this be speaks as the educator, mindful of his duty to the young men under his care and to their parents; farther on he speaks as an American citizen who would not see the intellectual and moral standards of his countrymen turned topsy-turvy...
JOHN A. FAIRLIE and E. S. PAGE.Best general references: Citizen, Nov. 17, 1894; Forum, xvii,, 196-206 (April 1894; North American Review, vol. 159, p. 278 (Sept. 1894); Report of Mass. Commissioners on Taxation and Exemption therefrom (1875) 153-160 and C. W. Eliot in appendix 367-394; Century xlvii, 789-795 (March, 1894), xlviii, 954 (Oct. 1894); T. E. A. Weadock in Congressional Record, June...
...principles of the A. P. A. are found - (a) in their professions: Citizen, Nov. 17, 1894. - (b) in their actions: Century, xlvii...
...Taxation of Religious, Educational and Charitable institutions inadvisable: Citizen, Nov. 17, 1894, Principle 7; Report on Taxation, 153-170, 367-394. - (a) These institutions perform necessary public functions. - (b) When supported by private benevolence their expense a saving to the state. - (c) Exemption a better method of encouraging private benevolence than direct grants...
...Exclusion of Roman Catholics from public office and positions in schools would be an uncalled for injustice: Citizen, Nov. 17, 1894, Principles 3 and 5. - (a) Membership in Catholic Church not irreconcilable with American citizenship. - (b) Alleged machinations of Pope - even if true - would be ineffective. - (1) Decline of Papal power. - (2) Weakness of Catholic Church in U. S. - (3) Publicity of action in U. S.: C. W. Eliot, Forum, xviii, 138 (Oct. 1894). - (c) Establishment of a religious test would be unconstitutional: Const. of U. S. Art. VI, Sec. 3, Amdt. I. - (d) A religious test for office holders...