Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot is at present in Chicago, having had a very successful trip west, and having carried out his program as announced. From Brooklyn he proceeded to Indianapolis, and from there to Urbana, Illinois, where he spent Sunday and Monday at the State University...
...history. He has now become the foremost writer of history of the United States, and has recently completed his greatest work. "The History of the United States since the Compromise of 1850." The degree of I.L.D. has been conferred upon him by Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and other universities. President Eliot's words, in delivering the degree, were: "The historian of the slavery debate, and of the Civil War and its issues; and accurate and impartial delineator of public characters, social conditions, and past states of public opinion." Professor Rhodes has been president of the American Historical Association...
President Eliot believes that the number of commissioners should be kept small, never exceeding seven. To the objection that a small commission is undemocratic, he replies that the charter constituting it proceeds from the people and that the renewing of the commission is in the hands of the people by means of election. But there are other guarantees of democracy; the initiative and referendum, the daily and weekly press, and the method of public hearing...
Above all else, President Eliot urges...
Confronted by these evils and their causes, President Eliot next proceeds to point out a way of obviating them. He shows how Boston has met some of the problems by placing her parks, her water supply, her library, city hospital, and fire department in the hands of commissions, thus relieving the mayor, aldermen, and council, of a large amount of municipal business. In Galveston, Texas, the mayor, aldermen, and council are entirely replaced by a single body whose functions are wholly administrative. There are five men elected by the people, each with a department of the city's business under...