Word: eliot
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President Eliot was the principal speaker at the dinner of the Economic Club of Boston at the American House last evening. The subject for discussion was the report of a committee appointed by the Economic Club to study the condition of the city government of Boston and investigate the feasibility of instituting a government by commission. President Eliot has held the position of chairman of this committee, which was appointed last December...
President Eliot will speak at the dinner of the Economic Club of Boston to be held at the American House, Boston, at 6 o'clock this evening. The other speakers will be J. D. Long '57, H. N. Shepard '71, H. S. Chase, J. F. Tobin, and F. P. Fish...
...commission. The report alleges that entrusting such large powers to one man as has been the case with the mayor of Boston, has not proved wise and expedient in practice, and recommends that the executive branch of the city government be vested in a council of five persons. President Eliot is a member of the committee chosen and will be the first speaker...
President Eliot spoke last Saturday before the Massachusetts State Child Labor Committee on the education of boys and girls as skilled laborers. He emphasized the fact that the rules of labor unions in this country limit the number of apprentices to far below the natural demand for skilled labor, and are consequently harmful, as they allow only a certain limited number of boys and girls to become skilled laborers. President Eliot discussed the perfection to which the German system of trade schools has been carried. In these schools compulsory education lasts until the age of sixteen, while in the American...
Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., '81 supplemented President Eliot's talk with an account of the progress made in the desired direction in Massachusetts...