Word: civic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Finally, the minister today has a great opportunity as a worker for public righteousness. The exercise of civic influence needs tact and sympathy. Ministers should be bringers of joy and cheerfulness, if they would make themselves and their profession most valuable to the world...
...were employed, it is difficult to tell just how municipal ownership has affected English politics. There are, no doubt, many in this country who believe that it should have a purifying effect. It may do this in one of two ways--it may arouse a greater interest in civic life, and it may remove the temptation of public service corporations from the path of the administrators...
President Roosevelt expected to be able to contribute an article to the series which the Intercollegiate Civic League is sending from time to time to the various clubs of which it is composed. He has been unable to devote the time to this, however, and, in place of writing an article, he gave permission for the publication of a stenographic report of that part of his speech, delivered in the Union on February 23, which applied with peculiar force to the work which the Intercollegiate Civic League aims to encourage. This part of the speech is given out for publication...
...Jesup was the instigator of the idea of forming the Intercollegiate Civic League, which was started exactly one year ago. The three aims of the League are non-partisanship, the promotion of honest citizenship and the elevation of poltical life. Mr. Jesup showed how the two great present issues of immigration and capital and labor demand that every man take an active and not a passive interest in the government of the country. He pointed out that the responsibility in the home, being the unit of our social life, is a phase of citizenship which cannot be ignored, and that...
...York, in 1905 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the New York County Committee of Jerome Nominators, in which capacity he did vigorous work as a public speaker. It was at his suggestion that the movement was started which resulted in the formation of the Intercollegiate Civic League at the City Club in New York City last March...