Word: cannot
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...admitted. Officers of the University may obtain tickets on and after June 18, at the Treasurer's office, 50 State street, Boston, between 10 and 2 o'clock, at the offices of the Deans of the Medical, Dental and Bussey Schools, or in Cambridge at 16 University Hall. Tickets cannot be sent by mail. Tickets will be distributed to graduates by the Deans of the various schools on Monday, June 23, as follows: Graduate School, University 10, 9 to 12 o'clock; Bussey Institution, Dean's office, 9 to 12 o'clock; Dental School, Room...
...Directors in a communication has told us that the stockholders will be subject to the force of public opinion, but public opinion only works on the knowledge that is available to the public, and when the public has a means of making its desire felt. It cannot be denied that, if the plan proposed is adopted, the influence of public opinion on the control will be weakened...
...honorable, public-spirited men in a position of trust would lead them to bend every energy to rectifying ing the difficulty. At the same time they and their Directors could discriminate between a mere meddling minority and really wise, disinterested criticism, and that is what an annual meeting now cannot do. The annual meeting is at the mercy of the former as well as at the service of the latter...
This instability has an immediate effect on the convenience of the Society to its members. We all know that the service in the store has not been entirely satisfactory. It is hard to see how it can ever be under the present system; for the Superintendent cannot promise a competent clerk fair wages and a prospect of reasonable increase with any certainty that his action will not be upset by a change in the Directorate. Interference by the Directors in such matters, where the responsibility should be borne by the Superintendent, has been a potent cause in the recent past...
...Reversals of policy are liable to mean changes in the persons employed in the Society's stores. So long as the Directors are not secured against being turned out of office by the vote of an insignificant minority who may not represent the permanent judgment of the Society, they cannot guarantee their employees that reasonable permanence of employment that is the right of every capable employee at present; for example, I should feel in duty bound to point out this weakness in the position of the Directors, to any employee of the Society who should ask me whether he should...