Word: commissioners
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During the fall and winter of the current academic year President Eliot has spoken before economic and citizens' clubs in various cities of Massachusetts on "Municipal Government by Commission." Among others he has filled the following engagements: October 25, Salem Board of Trade, Salem; October 31, Economic Club, Worcester; November...
The Finance Commission was instituted to investigate the city's salary list and the needs of the city, and found hundreds of people receiving good salaries and doing not the slightest work for the city. Since then, there has been some reform, but not until this year was there any...
"One man, a Senior, who enlisted as a private in the very beginning, was given a commission before there had been any fighting, and when the fighting began he was promoted. By a brave regiment he was called a brave man.
General Woodford said that every patriotic and wise man in considering a candidate for any great office should ask first, "Is he fit?" and second, "Is he available?" In answer to the first of these questions General Woodford said that he had known Gov. Hughes since the latter graduated from...
For many years Gen. Woodford has been prominent in the political and military affairs of the country. In 1857 he was messenger of the New York electoral college which conveyed to Washington the vote for Abraham Lincoln as president. In the Civil War he became brevet-brigadier-general of volunteers...