Word: citizenship
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...bequeathed to the University. After a few private bequests have been provided for, one-half of the residue is left to establish a fund for medical research in the University the sum of $50,000 is also given to the College "for the promotion of good citizenship by the study of republican government," and a further sum of $50,000 will eventually revert to the University...
...patriotism does not consist only in innovating the flag and extolling brave deeds of war. Its call, especially in a free country, should be as insistent in peace as in war. The fundamental duties of citizenship are fourfold; in war to fight for our country; in peace to work and vote for the best measures and the best public servants; to sit as jurors dealing out justice between man and man; and to bear, each according to his means, the cost of institutions and government...
...come to perform these duties of citizenship they will realize more and more the necessity of them and their benefits, and will take more pride and pleasure in doing them, until, let us hope, the man who honorably and zealously does his duties will be deemed and applauded just as worthy of praise as a soldier who has gallantly gone through battle...
...Women's Auxiliary of the Massachusetts Civil Service Reform Association will hold a meeting in the Phillips Brooks House Parlor tomorrow afternoon form 4 to 6 o'clock. Mrs. Richard C. Cabot, President of the Auxillary, will speak on "Civil Service Reform and Good Citizenship." Miss Marion Nichols will show some lantern slides illustrative of the progress of Civil Service Reform...
Concerning other phases of good citizenship, Dean Sumner asserted that three traits are necessary. The first is knowledge, the second is loyalty to city and country, and the third is action, or the regular assumption of public duties. Correction of the social evils must come through education, and the college men with their exceptional opportunities must lead in the work...