Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are various ways of teaching "good citizenship"-presumably a major aim of education. In Scarsdale, N. Y., the schoolchildren who trip matutinally to the two elementary schools or the six-year High School are taught in terms of business. Teacher gives them a lesson which is considered a "contract." By learning their lessons, the children fulfill their contracts, achieve a sense of responsibility, advance toward their looming citizenship with proper civic consciousness. In the Montezuma Mountain School for Boys, Los Gatos, Calif., children actually live like citizens. After a two-week campaign, the upper students elect a mayor...
...Hamilton is one of three American members of this Committee which is composed of 24 persons from many nations. It is one of the few institutions of the League which utterly forgets nationalism, as the members are chosen for their qualifications in medical work rather than for their citizenship in a certain country...
...entitled to maintain schools and that the state must to a certain degree subsidize them. In reality, however, this is not true; it exists only on paper. In Czeckoslovakia there is one such school to every 6,919 Czecks or Slovaks (because "Czeckoslovak" indicates an artificial and only apparent citizenship), but only one to 59,254 Hungarians, and more than half of the Hungarian children are forced to attend non-Hungarian schools and will thus be lost to the Hungarian language when they grow up. We see the same situation in Jugoslavia and in West Hungary (now belonging to Austria...
...Hedges, Ph.D. '24, Associate Professor of American History at Clark University, will remain throughout the year as lecturer in the Department of History. E. S. Griffith, who received his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Oxford in 1925, and who is now Associate Professor in the School of Citizenship at Syracuse University, will lecture in the Department of Government...
...Edwin Denby, widowed last week President Coolidge telegraphed: "I am deeply grieved. . . . His life was an outstanding example of good citizenship . . . displaying qualities pf heart and mind which endeared...