Word: civic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...head table were President C. C. Jackson, President Lowell, G. F. Willett, founder of the Norwood Civic Association and trustee of Boston University; E. D. Brandegee '81; Regent; E. F. McSweeney, director of the port of Boston; J. A. Wilder '93, commissioner of Honolulu, Hawaii; Judge Charles Almy '72 and Professor W. E. Richardson of Boston University...
Pageantry, as a form of popular education and edification, has steadily risen in favor with educators, civic reformers, artists, and the populace of the United States during the last decade and a half. Yale University, this autumn, is to produce, on a larger scale than any of her rivals have yet attempted, what will very likely prove to be the most imposing academic pageant to date; and this, be it noted, by a conservative institution, only recently awakened to aesthetics' rightful place. Even more significant of the change that has come is the ecclesiastical pageant soon to be shown...
This eminent authority advances 10 arguments against the proposition, every one of which has force and point. They are to be commended to the careful consideration of civic and other organizations that appear to believe that the public can accomplish something by trying to pull itself up by its bootstraps. Poston Post...
...Finally, there is the unofficial public service. Here are opportunities for important positions as secretaries of chambers of commerce, civic associations, bureaus of municipal research, societies for the investigation and the promotion of public policies of many kinds, and other civic agencies which in our age are flourishing as never before in the history of democracy. Much of our political leadership and statesmanship is to be found, not in legislative bodies or official chambers, but in the unofficial societies which formulate policies, draft laws, and advocate their adoption. The City of Chicago has recently published a large and informing volume...
...assistant editor of the Youth's Companion and the author of a dozen or more boys' books. He has also written the "Story of Harvard," a work which traces the growth of the University from its beginning to the present day. Joseph Lee, vice-president of the Massachusetts Civic League, and president of the Playground Association of America, will lecture on Education. Mr. Lee, who has served for many years on the Boston School Committee, has been instrumental in securing much social legislation, particularly laws promoting playgrounds. FitzRoy Carrington, who will lecture on the History of Engraving, is the editor...