Word: control
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...movement toward direct popular government have been important and good. The employee can now collect fair damages from his employer; in civil procedure the defendant must now convince one-fourth of the jury that he is innocent; judicial decisions cannot be reversed for trivial errors; railroads are kept in control by the club of the initiative and referendum; state officers are made to do their duties by the recall, stationed as a guard over them; a larger percentage of intelligent voters has come forward to run the government with wisdom; experts are planning and arguing the new steps in state...
...Howe considered the power given to the people of the cities to choose their own forms of government the most important of the municipal reforms effected in Oregon. They too have the initiative, referendum, and the recall. Each city can control its own license policy and, as they have not been extremists, they make changes for or against prohibition only as they understand what their needs...
Besides these remarks, there were speeches by F. P. Stearns h.'05, past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers; Mr. W. E. McClintock, chairman of the Chelsea Board of Control; and L. W. Perrin 2G., president of the Engineering Society...
There has been an increase in nearly all the minor sports. This has been incurred with a view of increasing the number of men actually taking part in games. The association has taken on control of fencing and wrestling, and has spent a considerable sum in the encouragement of Freshmen who have never participated in athletics...
...ENGINEERS. Annual Meeting. Harvard Union, 6 P. M. Joint Dinner with the Undergraduate Harvard Engineering Society. Mr. Bernard R. Green will preside. Among the speakers will be: President A. Lawrence Lowell, Mr. R. S. Peabody (Peabody & Stearns, Architects, Boston), Mr. W. E. McClintock (Chairman of the Chelsea Board of Control), Mr. F. P. Stearns (Consulting Engineer, Boston). Harvard Union, 7 P. M. All members of the University are cordially invited to attend. Those intending to be present should notify the Secretary (F. L. Kennedy, Pierce Hall) before March...