Pledged to Good Citizenship
By Editor
AFTER an address by Mayor Gaynor to the class of 1910 of the College of the City of New York, the students took the following oath: We will never bring disgrace to this our city by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks; that we will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many; that we will revere and obey the city's laws and do our best to incite to a like respect and reverence those who are prone to annul or set them at naught; that we will strive unceasingly to quicken the public's sense of public duty; that thus, in all these ways, we will transmit this city, not only not less, but greater, better, and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us. From a worldly view-point that is noble; but it is what every Christian, every true man, ought to stand for without a pledge or an oath. The fact of the oath and the general comment upon it indicates a lowering of general standards in public life.