Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Godkin Lectures are delivered under an endowment given to the University in 1903 by the friends of Edwin L. Godkin, the late editor of the "Nation," as a memorial of his long and distinguished service to the country of his adoption. The income of the Fund is devoted to the delivery and publication of annual lectures upon "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen," or upon some part of that subject. The lectureship was inaugurated in 1904 by the Rt. Hon. James Bryce, whose subject was "The Study of Popular Governments...
...elective system are M. Tardieu's first consideration; what impressed him most, however, is the spirit of solidarity in the body of students, and the American spirit that inspires every achievement. The personal liberty and individuality enjoyed at Harvard make the men more aware of the need of national co-operation, and as unity springs better from diversity than identity, thus the American nation is built on a solid basis...
...statesman must be absolutely frank with the people take a firm position which seems honest in his eyes, and not dodge the question or be two-sided about it. He must look at all questions from the vie-point of the nation and not from that of the locality, for what is good for the whole country must be good for a part of it. State and sectional interests should combine. Our whole history is the story of people working as a whole and against separations and groupings, and the national idea has won. It was the provincial idea that...
...Rhodes emphasized the important part which Godkin played in the public life of his time. Born in Ireland, he arrived in America at the age of 23, and not long after began newspaper work. In time he became the editor of the "Nation," and for thirty-five years continued his journalistic career, taking at all times an active part in political questions. In 1883 he was made editor-in-chief of the "Evening Post," and in the "Nation," which had now become a weekly edition of the "Evening Post," he exercised an important literary influence...
...lecture on Edwin Lawrence Godkin in Emerson D at 8 o'clock this evening. The subject is of particular significance because of the resumption of the Godkin lectures this year in the appointment of President Eilot as incumbent of the lectureship. Godkin was for many years editor of the "Nation" and the "New York Evening Post" and was at one time offered a professorship at Harvard which his duties compelled him to decline...