Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proposed Cambridge charter which has been framed in large part by members of the University Faculty is a concrete example of the kind of service which men trained in the theory of government are able to perform in behalf of the improvement of local political conditions. The proposed charter includes provisions for a number of the most successful of the changes that have been made of late in city government, the commission plan of administration, the initiative, referendum and recall, the short ballot and preferential voting. If accepted and administered in the right way, the proposed charter should put Cambridge...
...Piper was graduated from the Boston Latin School and Harvard University, class of 1874, and took a post-graduate course at Trinity College in Cambridge, England. He served two years in the Cambridge Common Council and one year as alderman and from 1891 until the new charter was adopted as member of the School Committee. He also served two years as trustee of the Cambridge Public Library...
...city wants quick, efficient, reasonable service; the inhabitants' paramount interest is in the character of the service; the company wants freedom from the danger of unnecessary, annoying regulations; and the investors desire security. In Mr. Curtis's opinion the franchise should take the form of a perpetual, private charter...
Professor L. J. Johnson '87 will deliver a lecture in Emerson J at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon on, "The American City Charter up to Date." Direct nominations, the short ballot, preferential voting, the initiative, the referendum, and the recall will be discussed as means to secure the control of a city by its inhabitants. There will also be a mock election as an object lesson in preferential voting. The lecture is open to the public...
...sections, were elected honorary members of the society. A rule was passed regarding new members. These will be admitted on the payment of $3 to the treasurer, A. Sweetser '11, Dana 26. Of this, $2 is an admission fee, and $1 annual dues. Men who, before December 12, signed charter membership cards, will be admitted as charter members on payment...