Word: phase
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Riis is an authority on this phase of the social question in America. He was born in Denmark, but came to this country when a young man and became police reporter for the New York Sun. Since then he has been active in the movement for establishing small parks and playgrounds within city limits, and has been instrumental in many movements toward tenement house and school reforms. During the years 1896 and 1897, Mr. Riis was one of the executive officers of the Good Government Clubs, and in 1897 was secretary of the New York Small Parks Commission...
...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 to shirk from the responsibility of putting the control of the government into able hands is nothing short of criminal...
...corresponding but somewhat more sweeping regulation at Princeton indicated perhaps somewhat more clearly one phase of the question; namely, that the college does not desire to encourage undue absenteeism from work. The Princeton regulation...
...Yale will be competed for this year for the first time. The debate will be held in Sanders Theatre sometime in the first week in March, although no exact date has yet been fixed. The subject has not yet been definitely decided on, but will be on some phase of the present church crisis in France. According to the conditions of the debate the names of the winning team will be engraved on the cup each year, and the cup will remain in the possession of that team for the ensuing year. Monsieur J. Jusserand, who has been French ambassador...
...HARVARD ELECTRIC CLUB AND MASS. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ELECTRIC CLUB. "Single-Phase Railway Construction." Mr. J. F. Vaughan. Pierce...