Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first part of his lecture, President Hibben gave the "first and most compelling duty of citizenship" as "the recognition of man's true relation to the society of which he is part", and defined the primary object of a college education as the fitting of "each student most adequately to perform his proper functions as an essential part of the social structure in which he is to live and move and have his being...
...speech delivered last night by President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University is indicative of an encouraging tendency in American thought of the present day. The general title of the Godkin Lecture, "Free Government and the Duties of Free Citizenship" is a question of interest and importance to all citizens, and one upon which public opinion is ever inquiringly active. Any light which may be cast upon the point is welcome. In President Hibben's address we find the head of one great university placing his opinions on this vital matter before the members of another university. The institutions...
...island of honey. But only by its preponderant power are the book's weaknesses found out. Taken whole it is a book of a noble man seen steadfastly-Saul the scourge, first of the law, then of the Lord; Saul invested always with the dignity of his Roman citizenship, yet humble enough to suffer fiercely, meanly, publicly for peace in his church; Saul the clever theologian and subtle Greek philosopher, never- save once in his proud youth at the feet of Gamaliel-never letting intellectual pride smother the pure flame of Christ's love; ending his days, near...
...President restored U. S. citizenship rights to the famed La Montagne brothers (Rene, William, Morgan, Montaigu), alert Manhattanites, who succeeded their father in the liquor business before Prohibition, supplied champagne to members of the Racquet & Tennis Club after Prohibition, were jailed in 1923 for violating the Volstead...
...reasons why I cannot think of Germany as an autocracy, but must continue to think of her as a country where the enlightened leadership of administrative experts, endowed with large responsibility devoted to the public welfare, guided if not controlled by popular supervision, has brought about a type of citizenship and a state of society as healthy and progressive as exist anywhere in the world...