Education
He graduated from Hamilton College in 1868, and then was engaged in journalism until 1870. He then studied theology in the Union Theological Seminary, New York, where he edited the University Quarterly Review.
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Henry Waite
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Career
Waite organized the National Reform League in 1876. He was president of the Political Science Association of New York 1876-1877, special officer of the United States census 1880-1883, editor of the Boston Citizen 1885-1886, then editor of Civics in New York City. In 1885 he founded the American Institute of Civics, of which he was president
He was the first to employ the term “civics” to designate those branches of science that pertain to the elevation of citizenship.
