Word: home
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...here in Cambridge, the home of our poet, tonight, it is the life rather than the poems of Longfellow that I, as the spokesman of his fellow townsmen, am drawn by affectionate memory chiefly to celebrate; more mindful of the sweeter secret which lies within the melody of his verse than of its outward rhythm and rhyme...
...Smith compared the quiet home life and calm business career of fifty years ago with the conventional customs and frenzied haste of today. Fortunate is the man who was brought up in his youth by a wise mother and father of the old type--parents whose sole aim was to educate their children in the ways of simplicity and true happiness. Today the seemingly successful man is so engrossed in his own interest that many external affairs which contain the real pleasures of life are excluded. He has no time for vacation, for the joys of home life...
...President of the Political Club, called for a long cheer for the President after which the President himself arose and led a cheer for Harvard. During the spontaneous cheering which followed he made his way from the building, and with Bishop Lawrence, called and left his card at the home of President Eliot. The party then went to the Hasty Pudding Club where an informal reception was held by about 250 members...
...necessity to hold office. It means to take an intelligent, disinterested and practical part in the everyday duties of the average citizen, of the citizen who is not a faddist or a doctrinaire, but who abhors corruption and dislikes inefficiency; who wishes to see decent government prevail at home, with genuine equality of opportunity for all men so far as it can be brought about, and who wishes, as far as foreign matters are concerned, to see this nation treat all other nations, great and small with respect, and if need be with generosity, and at the same time show...
...police force should be the best, because the police are the medium through which the ignorant foreign immigrants receive their first impression of American law and government. The Slav of yesterday is the citizen of tomorrow, and it depends upon the police how much he likes his new home...