Word: partisanship
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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...
...sensible control and direction of it. A control which may make it the vehicle of a cordial expression of generous appreciation of every neat performance, whether by the friends we love or by the foes we ought to cherish. Let all allowances be made for excusable and inoffensive partisanship,--barring the unmelodious horn of cracked tin,--but in our partisan enthusiasm let us not overstep the boundaries of courtesy. Even among the ancient Hebrews, whose code demanded eye for eye and tooth for tooth, the stranger who was in their camp, within their gates, was to be left unvexed...
...therefore, no greater political work than that of maintaining a high standard of municipal government. For a high standard to be possible in our heterogeneously populated cities Mr. Shepard said that these two principles must be adhered to--both in conflict with certain ideas of Puritanic reform: first, that partisanship should be maintained and strengthened in municipal politics,--always assuming that partisanship mean not service of party as an end, but the holding of party as a means to carry out policies for the general good; second, that municipal government should be a rule of order and liberty, rather than...