Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coming from the plains of the Middle West and the Pacific Coast, from all parts of the country are boys in whom rests what promise the country has of fulfilling her purpose as a modern nation. All of these must be fitted for the task of intelligent and adequate citizenship in a modern state. Thus the traditions which are completely of New England to so much as they are necessary to strengthen and illumine the lives and minds of those who come to Harvard must be maintained; those which could the issues, which handicap the university in her attempt...
...Borah: "If that be true, is it not the orderly thing to do, so long as we profess to live under a constitutional government, to amend the Constitution in the manner provided by the Constitution itself? Can the Senator conceive of anything more demoralizing and undermining to the good citizenship of the people than to have a solemn pledge in the Constitution and to have great Senators stand upon the floor of the Senate and say the people are going to have what they want regardless of whether it is constitutional...
...Text: "I...do solemnly swear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the Irish Free State...and I will be faithful to H. M. King George V...in virtue of the common citizenship of Ireland with Great Britain and her adherence to and membership of the...British Commonwealth of Nations...
...from their number. The state committees will elect the teachers, who will then chaperone the chosen boys and girls going and coming on the parade that is to stir them all so imaginatively, and so deepen their patriotism, "that in future years they may be bulwarks of good citizenship in their own communities and in the nation...
...Radcliffe Auxiliary, Vice President of the National Religious Education Association, member of the Massachusetts Civic League, of the Boston Women's Municipal League, and of the Massachusetts Women's Educational Association. Her books: Everyday Ethics, Report of (Massachusetts) State Board of Education, Ethics for Children, A Course in Citizenship, Volunteer Help to the Schools, Our Part in the World, Seven Ages of Childhood...