Word: commissioners
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The April number of the Harvard Engineering Journal contains the following articles: "Synchronous Motors," Professor C. A. Adams of the Engineering department; "The New York Subway," S. U. Hopkins '97, assistant engineer of the public service commission, New York City; "Testing Flat Cast Iron Plates," by S. Withington '06 and...
Dr. Abbott was graduated from New York University in 1853, and has received the degree of D.D. from that institution and from Harvard, and the degree of LL.D. from Western Reserve University. He was ordained a minister in 1860, and has held pastorates at Terre Haute, Indiana, New England Church...
President Eliot believes that the number of commissioners should be kept small, never exceeding seven. To the objection that a small commission is undemocratic, he replies that the charter constituting it proceeds from the people and that the renewing of the commission is in the hands of the people by means of election. But there are other guarantees of democracy; the initiative and referendum, the daily and weekly press, and the method of public hearing...
As yet President Eliot has confined himself to single speeches on the subject, but as Godkin Lecturer for the current year, an appointment recently given him by the Corporation, he will probably develop the subject of "Municipal Government by Commission" more fully and present it in a series of addresses...
...large amount of municipal business. In Galveston, Texas, the mayor, aldermen, and council are entirely replaced by a single body whose functions are wholly administrative. There are five men elected by the people, each with a department of the city's business under his supervision. Under these commissioners the proper experts are employed and principles of business are followed. Another illustration of the working of government by commission is in the city of Washington, D. C., where a commission appointed by Congress governs the city...