Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Some two weeks ago we published an obituary notice of Morris L. Black, a special in the class of '91, and a citizen of Cleveland, Ohio. Although but twenty-nine years old at the time of his death, Mr. Black had made such a reputation for himself and is so generally mourned, that we can but speak more minutely of a character and a career which offer so much to emulate...
...Black possessed many agreeble traits, but it was not these which have made his loss a public one. It was because in his short period of activity he proved himself the highest type of citizen. In speaking of his life the New York Evening Post says editorially,- "that he conceived it to be the duty of every man, and the especial duty of the educated man, to render public service. As soon as he was established for life in Cleveland he began working to secure better government for the city. His efforts soon attracted attention, and won him popular support...
...incident related by one of his friends effectively shows the spirit which actuated him. Not long ago this friend presented him with a book on the fly leaf of which he had written: "To Citizen Black from one of his constituents." In reading it Mr. Black said thoughtfully, "What a splendid distinction it would be to have it said by the world: "He was a worthy citizen.'" Such distinction was won by Morris Black, and his record may well be emulated by college...
...hard to interpret, but two things we know and it is well to recall them. The work of a man's life is in its depth, not in its length; in its quality not in its quantity. He might have lived to build a railroad, to be a useful citizen or to have a happy home, but one thing we know, though it had been years later, his death, could not have brought home to his friends with greater force its lesson of a modest and unassuming life. What more can a man do in leaving this world than...
...first selection was from a "Group of Songs" and included "The Three Jolly Pigeons" and another song originally written for the part of Miss Hardcastle in "She Stoops to Conquer." Mr. Copeland also read Thackeray's Essay on Goldsmith from "The English Humorists," "Bean Tibs at Home," from "A Citizen of the World," "The Haunch of Venison," and passages from "The Deserted Village" and "Retaliation...