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...politician, his principles, and his work, can be found than is shown by the present Boston city government. These conditions not only make the situation interesting, but also are such as should afford college men peculiar satisfaction in studying and combating them. They do not exist here alone but prevail, to a greater or less degree, throughout the whole country, and they will continue to do so until men actuated by higher motives and acting from a sense of civic duty will take at least sufficient interest in politics to insure the election of honest and able men to public...
...least mean of necessity to hold office. It means to take an intelligent, disinterested and practical part in the everyday duties of the average citizen, of the citizen who is not a faddist or a doctrinaire, but who abhors corruption and dislikes inefficiency; who wishes to see decent government prevail at home, with genuine equality of opportunity for all men so far as it can be brought about, and who wishes, as far as foreign matters are concerned, to see this nation treat all other nations, great and small with respect, and if need be with generosity...
They can't prevail...