Word: civic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting is held in celebration of the first vote that a citizen casts. This first act of citizenship should inspire us with a civic pride, should make us feel with St. Paul of Tarsus, that we are "citizens of no mean city." The power of suffrage is not a right of all mankind; it is a privilege gained for us by eight generations of men who sacrificed and toiled for just and equal laws that the citizen might have freedom to develop his powers, that our government might be a true democracy. We, their descendants and heirs, ought to feel...
...proposed Council of federated civic and public-speaking clubs is an organization which the CRIMSON can heartily recommend as a step towards the simplification of club engagements, and the creation of a forum for the open discussion of College questions. When twenty Harvard clubs already exist, all of which are interested in civic work or public speaking, it is evident that conflicts and needless reduplication will occur. The proposed Council will co-ordinate club meetings and will establish and maintain a long-needed public forum. Further useful functions will no doubt develop. The CRIMSON welcomes the Council as an excellent...
Plans for the federation of the civic and speaking clubs have been definitely formulated. The committee, consisting of R. H. Smith '10, R. S. Hoar 2L., E. E. Hunt '10, T. M. Gregory '10, and H. M. Potter '10, has drawn up the articles of agreement given below. Each club is to accept, amend, or reject this plan, and to send two delegates to a convention to be held in the Union next Thursday at 9 o'clock...
...ratifying these articles of agreement and being formally admitted by the Council, shall be entitled to the rights and privileges of this organization. Each component club may select two representatives to sit as members of the Council. Representatives of the component clubs in the Council shall be classified as civic, forensic, and unclassified. The representatives of each group in caucus assembled shall elect one member of the Executive Committee, who shall also act as chairman of the caucus. The Chairman and Secretary-Treasurer of the Council shall be ex-officiis members of the Executive Committee and shall...
...debating in the University warranted some step being taken for the establishment of a forum wherein Harvard men could discuss University questions for the benefit of the student body. In accordance with this resolution a committee of five men was appointed to draw up a tentative federation system of civic and debating club interests. The form of the proposed organization will be submitted to each of the component clubs. It may be accepted, amended, or rejected as each elect two delegates to represent them at a convention in which some permanent form of organization will be adopted, for as many...