Word: board
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...result of the postal ballot for the nomination of Overseers, closed last Thursday, the names of ten graduates will appear on the official ballot on Commencement Day. This year there are five vacancies to be filled for the full term of six years. The candidates for the Board...
...experiments in reform that have been already tried clearly show the superiority of one board, elected at large, and restrained in the exercise of its powers by publicity, state supervision, and popular control. The experiment of one board has been successful wherever it has been tried. A small board, moreover, is to be preferred to a large board, as it is possible for the community to choose five men intelligently, while a wise selection is difficult when there are seventy-five men to be elected, as in the case of the city councils of the present...
Greater publicity would go far toward securing less corruption in our city governments. Not only should the meetings of the board be open to the public, but the proceedings and the auditing accounts should also be published at short intervals...
President Eliot will deliver the fourth and last lecture of the Godkin series on "Municipal Government" in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. His subject will be "Municipal Reform: the Promising Directions for Further Experimentation; One Board, Election at Large, Publicity, State Supervision, and Popular Control...
...GODKIN LECTURES. IV. "Municipal Reform; the Promising Directions for Further Experimentation; One Board, Election at Large, Publicity, State Supervision, and Popular Control." President Eliot. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...