Word: eliot
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President Eliot, in his third Godkin lecture last evening, devoted most of his time to a discussion of a system of municipal administration voled in Iowa in 1907 and now in force in Des Moines. The law is a general one, optional in cities with a population of 25,000 or over, and is intended to provide against all the common evils of city government. It gives the entire control of the city into the hands of five men, a mayor and four councillors of selection elected by the people for terms of two years each. The system of primary...
...first annual dinner of the Cosmopolitan Club will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union Friday evening at 7 o'clock. About seventy-five members of the club and their invited guests will attend. Owing to a previous engagement, President Eliot will be unable to be present throughout the dinner, but is expected to arrive for the latter part of the evening. During the dinner Kanrich's orchestra will render a specially prepared program of cosmopolitan music. Following is the list of speakers and their subjects: J. D. Greene '96, "The Cosmopolitan at Harvard"; Mr. E. B. Drew...
President Eliot will deliver the third lecture of the Godkin series on "Municipal Reform; lowa Experiments and their objects" in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. The final lecture, "Municipal Reform: the Promising Directions for Further Experimentation; One Board, Election at Large, Publicity, State Supervision, and Popular Control," will be given Friday. The lectures are open to the public...
...GODKIN LECTURES. III. "Municipal Reform: Iowa Experiments and their Objects; School Committee Experiments." President Eliot. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...GODKIN LECTUTRE. IV. "Municipal Reforms; the Promising Directions for Further Experimentation; One Board, Election at Large, Publicity, State Supervision, and Popular Control." President Eliot. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...