Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Some of our best employees are underpaid. They have remained in our service upon the representation of the present Board of Directors that they would try to secure the re-organization of the Society on such a basis that they, the Directors, would be able-not only to pay the salaries prevailing in the open market, but also to give better guarantee of security of employment, and freedom from unintelligent interference in matters of administrative detail at the hands of the Board of Directors. Our Society has not escaped entirely the dangers that beset industrial concerns or trading concerns that...
...Directors it is unfortunate that the Directors did not call a a special meeting of the Society for the sake of a full discussion. A further mistake was made by the majority of the Directors in refusing to publish the minority report. Had the majority of the board restricted their report to the presentation of a plan of reorganization the injustice of their action would not have been so great. As a matter of fact, however, they accompanied this report with an argument in favor of its adoption. In all justice then they should have included the argument...
...incompetency, the Society is now run by the Board of Directors subject to the ultimate control of 2500 members, most of whom have no business experience at all and take little interest in the affairs of the Society, while under the new plan the ultimate control would be in the hands of five men, who are older and more experienced than almost any other members of the Society. The opponents of the plan claim that 2500 students, with no business experience, can run the business well, and yet they protest against allowing five men to run it, each...
...formal opening and reception at Robinson Hall yesterday afternoon was very successful. About five hundred attended, including members of the Faculty and their wives members of the Board of Overseers and their wives, representatives of the Boston Society of Architecture, the Boston Architectural 'Club, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Technology...
...been contended that my position is in conflict with the vote of the Society at its last annual meeting; and it is on this ground that the majority of the Board have refused to allow a minority report to be printed and sent to each member of the Society as the majority report will. Even if this is true all the members of the Society as well as the few who attended the last annual meeting should examine thoroughly the proposed plan and see what it means before depositing a vote in favor of it. It means a Co-operative...