Word: commissioners
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Mr. Clark has been intimately connected with the Congo movement for twenty-seven years. He was a missionary there under the direction of the Livingstone Inland Mission and later of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and was one of the principal witnesses before King Leopold's Commission of Inquiry. On...
President Eliot will give an address this evening in Quincy under the auspices of the local Board of Trade on "Municipal Government by Commission."
Several times during the current year President Eliot has expressed his views in favor of governing cities by commission, and the idea is now being deeply considered in connection with the change of municipal government of Boston. He addressed the members of the Union last fall on this subject.
Last year President Roosevelt urged the members of the Intercollegiate Civic League to take an intelligent, disinterested and practical part in the everyday duties of the average citizen. At present it is impossible for intelligent men to take an intelligent part in the duties of citizenship, because city records are...
One of the evils with which we all have to contend is the book-agent pest. Despite the numerous notices to the effect that the presence of these men is not desired, their calls have lately become as regular as the delivery of the college mail. Besides this, the books...