Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such a patriot from one who knew him should be historically of great interest to all. To become better acquainted with the ideals for which our forefathers were willing to lay down their lives should be a strong factor toward a deeper appreciation of the duties of American citizenship...
...King of Hungary are absolutely different, autocracy as opposed to constitutionalism. For convenience foreign affairs and part of the military organization are managed by a common executive body. All appropriations must be approved by the separate parliaments. There is no common judiciary of the two countries, common legislature, citizenship, or territory. In view of these facts it is evident that Hungary can at any moment abolish the whole machinery of the union. There is no danger of such a course as long as the Union is maintained in the spirit in which it was started, and the promise of independence...
...live and study a little is very easy and entirely possible, but a view of undergraduate life which considers this enough neglects all ideas of citizenship and of personal development through association with many and different men. Any undergraduate, if he is to get as much out of college as possible, must feel the necessity of doing something more than passing sixteen courses in his four years. There are enough ways of doing this unrequired work, so that every man can suit his own case. Those of academic bent can by getting good marks raise the academic standard. Other...
...meeting is held in celebration of the first vote that a citizen casts. This first act of citizenship should inspire us with a civic pride, should make us feel with St. Paul of Tarsus, that we are "citizens of no mean city." The power of suffrage is not a right of all mankind; it is a privilege gained for us by eight generations of men who sacrificed and toiled for just and equal laws that the citizen might have freedom to develop his powers, that our government might be a true democracy. We, their descendants and heirs, ought to feel...
Mayor Whitlock of Toledo was then introduced by President Eliot to speak on "Citizenship." No man should commit himself irrevocably to any political party; organization in politics is necessary, to be sure, and no one should keep aloof from them out of conceit; but every voter should be master of himself and decide for himself. What counts is development of character; if we look to this, we shall help in that movement of the people which is the most inspiring on earth today...