Word: directing
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Miss Esther Dart, a graduate of the Massachusetts General Hospital, will be the matron, and she will be assisted by a head nurse and assistant nurses. The direct supervision is now in the hands of Dr. M. H. Bailey...
...noticed at the outset that these are in no sense reasons for adopting the particular plan for incorporation submitted by the majority of the Directors. But let us examine how weighty they are. The Society is a partnership, the direct management of the affairs of which is placed in the hands of a Board of Directors, chosen from the Faculty and students by the members of the Society. As such it has become a strong business institution, possessing a large capital, doing a cash business of the most stable character, and enjoying the unlimited confidence of the business men with...
...reform; but the Society has no assurance that they might not have been elected had they represented a less desirable policy. In other words, given the wide-spread and habitual apathy which characterizes the members of the Society, the power of the members to elect officers and thus determine directly the policy of the Society, tends to defeat government by public opinion, it does not tend to secure it. The mere fact that persons can carry a change of policy by inducing a hand-full of persons to come to the annual meeting makes it unnecessary to acquaint the members...
...Board was instructed by the last annual meeting of the Society to prepare and submit a plan of reorganization and incorporation which, it was expressly stated, should not give members "power of direct management of the affairs of the Company." The retention of such power for the members was understood to be the main purpose of the minority member. Such plans were clearly out of order, and were so ruled at a meeting of all the members of the Board without a word of dissent being expressed. There being no minority report there was nothing to publish but the plan...
Mathematical Conference. The Logarithm as a Direct Function. Mr. J. W. Bradshaw. Sever...