Word: politicization
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It can't be done. We must go back a step. In your columns I have noticed that discussions of student voting generally assume that the student from a distant state has no interest in the local affairs of Cambridge and Massachusetts. Why so? On the slightest consideration it will...
The Bureau of Municipal Research aims so to mass the facts of government as to produce artificially the light and the neighbor's eye which will inhibit the desire to misgovern. For the execution of this program, college men are needed. When they do not sincerely love to be intelligent...
Spoliation of offices was commonly accepted throughout the higher departments of the government. Fidelity and integrity of service did not insure promotion, and the very character of the country became demoralized. Those who contributed to the campaigns received legislative favors; the body politic was threatened and the voter scarcely realized...
There is a tendency among college men, continued Mr. Low, to consider universal suffrage, though inevitable, wrong. This stand he proved was false by many illustrations from his experience in Brooklyn and New York. Universal suffrage is beneficial for a body politic because feeling voters are as necessary as thinking...
Mr. Garfield said in part: The success of any activity depends upon the character of the individuals who undertake it; if the body politic is to be strong the individuals composing it must be correspondingly strong. The requisites for the successful discharge of the duty of citizenship are four--intelligence...