Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...next question is whether competent and successful business men will accept the positions if elected. President Eliot is of the opinion that the efficient citizen will accept, given conditions under which he may serve his city honestly and well. Another method of increasing municipal efficiency is to lengthen the term of office. In the new charters adopted by Galveston, Houston and Des Moines, this is done, and the chiefs of the city departments hold office for long periods. The three fundamental fea tures, however, of the system under which reform can best be secured are one chamber of delegates...
...last forty years in American education. He has, moreover, shown a public spirit and a sense of duty in all matters confronting the life of the community in which he has lived and the life of the country at large which has made him the leading private citizen of the Republic. His counsel has been felt in affairs for a generation and always felt in the interest of right action and wholesome sentiment...
...death of Professor Norton the University and the community at large have lost a personality whose widely extended influence for good, during more than one generation, cannot be adequately told. Professor Norton was not only a man of high scholarly attainments and ideals, but he was a citizen who had the welfare of the community at heart, and took an active part in its concerns as far as need required and opportunity offered. He was also a warm-hearted and hospitable friend to a wide circle of men of many callings, and was always ready to serve them...
...Lowell, Whittier and Holmes, are not lost to the consciousness of any who knew them; the Cambridge, the Boston, the New England, the America which lived in them, has not yet passed away. He was not only the contemporary, the companion of those great men; he was their fellow citizen in those highest things in which we may be his if we will, for the hospitality of his welcome will not be wanting. Something Athenian, something Florentine, something essentially republican and democratic in the ideals common to them all has had its especial effect in him through that temperamental beneficence...
...then introduced. He explained the Cambridge poll-tax and assessment, and added that any men, who were old enough to vote, and had not been assessed in May, could be added to the supplementary list. He had to appear at the City Hall to testify as a "bona-fide" citizen. Then Mr. Brennan said that he would be at Butler's today and tomorrow to help any such men. The hours of registration are today from 10 to 4 and tomorrow from...