Word: states
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...night of February 27 there will also be special exercises in New York in commemoration of the centenary, and the Maine legislature have appointed the day as a special holiday in the state...
...Friday I learned with surprise from your columns of the action of the Sophomore class in regard to wearing class buttons. The Sophomores seem not to have outgrown the state where they want every toy they see their friends playing with. The Senior class buttons, adopted first by the class of 1905, will lose half their value and their full significance, when adopted by other classes. There might be some reason for Juniors to adopt class buttons, after the Seniors begin to wear their caps and gowns on May 1, but for Sophomores it seems absurd. JUNIOR...
These ruins have excited great interest from being the most remarkable architectural remains of pre-Columbian time in America. In recent years Dr. Tozzer, as well as other archeologists, has given much time to exploration and study of the ruins, and of the state of civilization they record. The Peabody Museum possesses large collections from Yucatan, and many models or the ruins found there as well as numerous photographs will be shown by Dr. Tozzer. The present inhabitants of Yucatan, the Lacondones, a tribe which Dr. Tozzer has studied with particular care, have sadly deteriorated since they produced such wonderful...
...gist of Mr. Long's speech was that it is the common, everyday things of life which are most worth while. In speaking of the civic and social duties, of each individual citizen, he said that, practically, the "State" may be considered as an enlargement of the "City," and the "Commonwealth" as an enlargement of the "State." How far the powers of each of these three divisions shall go is a very difficult question, but it must be admitted that a great degree of centralization is necessary to the proper control of this great "Commonwealth...
...State" is guarded by its constitution; and the legislature guards it by its yearly statutes, which are a transcript of the best public opinion. Public opinion is thus the government of the "Commonwealth," and, therefore, each individual must have a high ideal of personal purity and character if the government is to be sound and good. Finally, the government is not outside of us, but it is in us; it is for us, the people--as individuals and in a body--to guard the "State...