Word: civics
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President Eliot will leave Cambridge on November 8 to deliver a series of lectures at the University of Virginia, and to address various civic organizations in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Ohio, and in Virginia. On the evening of November 8 he will speak in Philadelphia before a meeting of the Contemporary Club on "Adverse Tendencies in University Life." Going to Charlottesville, Virginia, he will deliver at the University of Virginia a series of three lectures on successive days, beginning November 10. The general subject of his lectures will be "The Struggle between Collectivism and Individualism in a Democracy." This will be considered...
...Intercollegiate Civic League, of which this club is a member, is devoted to political research and the cause of good government...
...LL.B. in 1874. He was admitted to the bar, and practiced for several years in Baltimore. He entered politics early in his career, and became prominent in many reform movements. He was made chairman of the council of the national Civil Service Reform League, president of the National Civic Federation. In 1905 he was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Roosevelt, a position which he held for a year and a half, when he was made Attorney-General. He remained in this position until the present administration. In 1904 he was Republican presidential elector from Maryland...
...annual convention of the Intercollegiate Civic League will be held in New York today. Delegates are expected from all the thirty colleges of the league, and from about twenty others to whom special invitations have been issued. All the principal eastern colleges and numerous western institutions will be represented. The Harvard delegates will be J. R. Gilman '09 and R. S. Hoar...
...Boston, and editor of the International Library, will speak this evening in the Assembly Room of the Union at 8 o'clock on "The United States as a World Power." The lecture will be under the auspices of the newly organized Patria Society, a society to rouse patriotic and civic interests among the members of the University...