Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means vocational improvement, educational improvement, and a general physical clean up and a fresh start. It seems to me that heat must mean a great deal. If there is any better plan for bringing the youth of America together for a short time and teaching them the duties of citizenship, let us have it. We call this universal military training, but we might better call it universal training for national service...
...ancillary sciences, and in its political institutions. There is no room for vainglory; both achievements were made possible and fostered by the vastness of the country and by its natural wealth. One thing should be forever fixed in the mind of every young man who proposes to use his citizenship intelligently and conscientiously; neither of these achievements is due to any one class of men, and least of all has the superiority of our political institutions been due to the politician class, or to individual statesmen during the past hundred years. It is American public opinion created by the mutual...
Finally, as an example of useful citizenship, we have portrayed in an admirable sketch and poem the life of that "high minded gentleman" and benefactor of Harvard University, Henry Lee Higginson...
Colonel Woods is well qualified to speak on "American Citizenship on Trial" because of his connection with the New York police force. It was while he was Police Commissioner of New York City from 1914 to 1917 that he did his greatest work, completely reorganizing the police force of that city and making it the most efficient body of its kind in the world...
Colonel Woods published in 1918 two books entitled "Crime Prevention" and "Policeman and the Public." Crime Prevention deals with the conventional police methods, educating the public, and crime and criminals. Policeman and the Public discusses the responsibilities of citizenship...