Word: civics
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...joint meeting and separate annual meetings of the National Municipal League, the National Conference for Good City Government, and the American Civic Association, will begin at Providence, Rhode Island, today...
...clock in Manning Hall, Brown University, President Faunce of Brown will deliver an address of "Welcome on behalf of Our Providence Hosts," which will be followed by a reply on behalf of the National Municipal League by President C. J. Bonaparte '71, a reply on behalf of the American Civic Association by President J. H. McFarland and greetings of the Canadian Union of Municipalities by Secretary W. D. Lighthall...
...among others, will speak on "The Galveston Plan of Government," and F. H. Wheelan '80 will tell "How San Francisco is Winning Good Government." Thursday evening at 7 o'clock a dinner will be given to the members and delegates of National Municipal League; Horace E. the American Civic Association...
...Sargent was formerly president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and a member of the arbitration board appointed by the Civic Federation in 1902. That same year he took an active part in aiding President Roosevelt to secure arbitration in the coal strike...
...should afford college men peculiar satisfaction in studying and combating them. They do not exist here alone but prevail, to a greater or less degree, throughout the whole country, and they will continue to do so until men actuated by higher motives and acting from a sense of civic duty will take at least sufficient interest in politics to insure the election of honest and able men to public office. It is the college-trained men who are best qualified to start such a movement in the communities in which they live, and who should do so. Here is given...