Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gist of my remarks was that interest in and respect for intellectual life were essential in the college in order that it retain its vitality, and prepare men for the graduate and professional schools and for citizenship; that such interest and respect are not in American colleges what they should be. I said that this is not due to the fact that youth is naturally self-indulgent or indolent; that in time of war college students would not volunteer for a regiment that would be comfortably and safely housed and exposed to no danger, but would strive to get into...
...must not, in times of peace, permit ourselves to lose any part from this structure of patriotic unity. I make no plea for leniency toward those who are criminal or vicious, are open enemies of society and are not prepared to accept the true standards of our citizenship. By tolerance I do not mean indifference to evil. I mean respect for different kinds of good. Whether one traces his Americanism back two or three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine...
...explained the privileges and duties of citizenship, and twelve good citizens and true were sworn in as jurors...
...republic. Church has been separated from state and religion eliminated from all law codes. Religion of any kind may be taught in the churches and the mosques, but not in the schools. All persons born in Turkey, without regard to race, religion or nationality, have all rights of Turkish citizenship. The Turkish leaders without previous experience must evolve the new administration. There are bound to be mistakes and the evolution will be slow, but there are many evidences of progress...
Other requirements: a semester each of Citizenship and Evolution; a year of Physical Education; a year each of two of the following: Mathematics, an ancient language, a modern language; a year each of two courses in Mathematics or Physical Science; a year each of two courses in History, Philosophy, Psychology or the social sciences...