Word: checks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fire, the cause of which is unknown, spread rapidly to the adjoining rooms by means of the gas pipes and for a time threatened the entire building. A. L. Thayer 1L. and four workmen with the aid of the University fire apparatus succeeded in holding the flames in check, however, until the arrival of the Cambridge Fire Department, which extinguished the fire after an hour's work...
...interested in practical politics a chance to see the workings at the polls in the Boston city election next Tuesday. The Public School Association, which is led by Major Higginson and was recently addressed at Tremont Temple by President Eliot, desires a certain number of men to check off the voters at the booths and to hunt up delinquent voters. The association aims at keeping the Boston School Board out of politics and is absolutely non-partisan and non-sectarian. Its effect has been to give a more efficient and honest administration of school affairs in the recent past...
...interested in practical politics a chance to see the workings at the polls in the Boston city election next Tuesday. The Public School Association, which is led by Major Higginson and was recently addressed at Tremont Temple by President Eliot, desires a certain number of men to check off the voters at the booths and to hunt up delinquent voters. The association aims at keeping the Boston School Board out of politics and is absolutely non-partisan and non-sectarian. Its effect has been to give a more efficient and honest administration of school affairs in the recent past...
...consequent income it cannot be blamed for not carrying out every theoretically desirable improvement when but about fifty per cent of each class join. Many schemes of great value have had to be abandoned owing to a lack of funds, and the House Committee has been constantly held in check by this unfortunate state of affairs. In two years' experience as a member of this committee I have found this to be true and have come to regard it as the most crying need--the membership must increase to provide a really satisfactory administration...
There will also be a special sale of tickets for members of the University, who may obtain not more than two tickets in advance of the public sale, by applying (on a blank form to be obtained at Sever's Bookstore or at the Union), with check and addressed stamped envelope enclosed, before 6 P. M., Monday, March 28, to Professor J. H. Gardiner, 18 Grays Hall...