Word: council
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sever 11 last evening, Mr. Francis C. Lowell of the Board of Overseers spoke on the "Concentration of Responsibility in Municipal Government." His remarks were based on his observations during three years of service on the Common Council of Boston. By our constitutional form of government the power is greatly divided and divided power means divided responsibility. This division makes the national and state government very expensive and causes not a little inefficiency. The same theory of government has been carried down into the cities The mayor corresponds to the president and there are legislative bodies which have functions similar...
...probably not wise to go very far at present. The change would be too great. Reforms must be brought about gradually. Nevertheless, some changes should be made now. The mayor should be given absolute direction of appointments and approvals and the executive department of the government The common council should devote itself to legislative purposes only. But no change will bring about the millenium and until then, no government can work perfectly...
Brown is the only university of importance that is not represented in the council of the new University Athletic Club of New York City...
...Sixth Ave., and will move in some time before May 1. This will leave the rival University Athletic Association to secure without opposition the Berkeley Athletic property at Forty-fourth Street. The Athletic Club has a membership already of over one hundred, and this will soon be doubled. The council of twenty which will have control of the club is now made up and is as follows: George A. Adee. Yale, president; Edward D. Appleton, Trinity; Collin Armstrong, Amherst; Wendell Baker, Harvard; Henry W. Banks Jr., Williams; Henry Stanford Brooks, Yale; Robert C. Cornell, Columbia; Cornelius C. Cuyler, Princeton; George...
...expectation of the Club," Mr. Lee said, "to have a club-house by the first of April or soon after. The club is to be governed by a council of twenty-one, one-third of which shall be elected yearly. This council will have almost absolute control...