Word: honestly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Jesup was the instigator of the idea of forming the Intercollegiate Civic League, which was started exactly one year ago. The three aims of the League are non-partisanship, the promotion of honest citizenship and the elevation of poltical life. Mr. Jesup showed how the two great present issues of immigration and capital and labor demand that every man take an active and not a passive interest in the government of the country. He pointed out that the responsibility in the home, being the unit of our social life, is a phase of citizenship which cannot be ignored, and that...
...McAdoo, in speaking of "The Guarding of the City," said that in New York City, which contains four and onehalf millions of people, representing every race, tongue, and clime, the greatest problem of government is to keep up a thoroughly honest and efficient police force. Could such an organization be maintained there, New York City, the most cosmopolitan and the wealthiest community in the world, would be an orderly, safe, and law-abiding place. As New York is the biggest city in America, its police force should be the best, because the police are the medium through which the ignorant...
...long enough," the third in advocacy of debating. The verse of the number includes a rollicking description of "The Maverick," who is evidently a free lance of the West, a use of the Word new to me, but a happy one, whether common or the author's invention; "Sistiana," honest and ambitions lines after reading "The Romaunt of the Rose," and "Autumn Wind," in which are some good lines...
During these busy years of dramatic writing, he has always been willing to speak and write on the drama. He has ever argued for a wider acceptance of drama as an art and a literature, and for an honest treatment of whatever is essentially dramatic in English life today. In 1895 he collected his speeches and essays in a volume called "The Renaissance of the English Drama." The fruit of his experience since that time he is now putting into shape for a volume to bear the same title as this lecture, "The Corner Stones of Modern Drama...
Professor Nelson concluded with an appeal to all young men for an honest and hearty co-operation in public service...