Word: civic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more demonstrative natures. But although we cannot grasp its full significance, we can surely sympathize with an endeavor which aims, as we believe Dr. Chapman's does, to bring about such practical results as the strengthening of the moral fibre and the fostering of a higher integrity in our civic governments...
...owes to his fellow-countrymen all the use he can make of his power, dependent on his vocation in the community, for some professions are more widely looked to for public benefits than others. We cannot claim that the theatre has been neglected socially or commercially; but as a civic institution it has been overlooked and ignored...
...Tuesday, March 30. Charles J. Bonaparte '71, LL.D., attorney-general of the United States, member of the executive committee of the National Civic Federation...
President Eliot will speak before the Civic Forum on the subject of "Lawlessness" this evening in Carnegie Hall, New York. After the President's speech the question will be open for general discussion. The Civic Forum is an organization in New York whose objects are the discussion of public questions and the promotion of international good-will. Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., h.'90, will preside at the meeting. Tomorrow morning President Eliot will deliver a short address before the students of the Horace Mann Schools and Teachers' College...
...greatness. His mental precision and unusual capacity for lucid and apt discrimination have enabled him to treat public questions with singular authority and with an unerring instinct for the aspirations and needs of society. He has touched no subject without illuminating it; he has stood firmly for collegiate and civic righteousness; and so sane have been his counsels, so masterly his power of statement, that he not only commands today the attention of America, but he is honored by scholars and thinkers throughout the world. He has set an example to all by the simplicity of his life...