Word: civilities
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...turn of the 20th century, Harvard alumnus and Civil War veteran Major Henry Lee Higginson addressed the Harvard community on what he believed it most needed: a common space that all Harvard students could call their own. Higginson argued that the College exists “to furnish fit material for the building up of the Republic…good public and private citizens.” For this task, he reasoned, “equipment is needed, beside teachers, lectures, and books, the freest and fullest intercourse between students.” More than a century later, the major?...
...says it can recover $97.8 billion in "wasteful spending," partly through reductions in civil-servant-personnel costs and the upkeep of government offices, in order to realize its campaign promises over the next four years. Those promises include cash handouts to families with children, free high school education, free highways, a four-year freeze on consumption tax (now at 5%) and a curbing of bond issuances. The DPJ must deliver on its promises without increasing the level of deficit financing "to demonstrate that they're fiscally responsible," says Gerald Curtis, a Japanese-politics expert and professor at Columbia University...
...could see him rise in his chair and fill with passion,” said Ellwood. Kennedy developed his passion for the underprivileged during his first few years in office, and the young senator relied on a group of Harvard professors to help educate him about issues such as civil rights and health care.His civil rights victories included successfully fighting to protect the Voting Rights Act, increasing the minimum wage in the 1990s, and passing the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990—the last of which was held particularly close to his heart because of the mental disability...
...Western states) can craft a bill that is both effective and bipartisan. But it won’t happen. The Gang of Six is the gang that couldn’t shoot straight. The members are financially compromised, too far to the right of public opinion, and uncommitted to civil debate...
...speech was delivered following an unsuccessful primary challenge against a sitting president of his own party who, Kennedy argued, was failing to live up to Democratic ideals. The speech was a call to action for liberals, and its core themes of helping those in need through civil rights, universal healthcare, and a renewed “commitment of the Democratic Party to economic justice,” remained his core beliefs nearly three decades later...