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...inefficiency is due to the division of responsibility. To illustrate these evils, suppose there is a vacancy in the municipal government. The mayor is immediately surrounded by a horde of office-seekers, most of them members of the board of Aldermen which confirms the mayor's appointee. They compel him to appoint the man they want or refuse their confirmation. As a rule the mayor is forced to make a "deal." The appointee, too, must pledge himself to whatever the confirming board demands. This is the condition under which many of the appointments are made. The trouble lies...
...desire to be unaccommodating on the part of the West End Company. The petition was largely signed, and it was reasonable and just. A second petition has been placed at Leavitt and Peirce's addressed to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of Cambridge who have power to compel the street railway company to regard the petition. Every man in college who is affected by the present inconvenient arrangement should sign this petition in order that it may go to the Board of Alderman in as strong a form as possible...
...Preserves the policy of the government by keeping gold and silver in use at a parity. 3. 15 a step toward placing our currency on a sound metallic basis. 4. Supplies a legal tender note more useful and desirable than the silver dollar. 5. Does not compel needless coinage of the silver dollar. 6. Gives the Sec. of the Treas. sufficient power to regulate purchase and coinage. The compulsory purchase avoids a vacillating policy In use of the silver...
...unusual amount of work incident to the appearance of the Catalogue in English with many other minor changes will compel Mr. Tillinghast to depend very largely in preparing the class lists, on the replies received to this circular...
Each member has it in his own hands to compel an answer to this question: first, by coming to the meeting tonight; secondly, even if it is necessary to adjourn to another time, by refusing to break up until the affairs of the society have been thoroughly and publicly overhauled...