Word: fives
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...treat "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen," or some similar subject. President Eliot is the second incumbent of the lectureship. The first was the Right Honorable James Bryce, British Ambassador to the United States, who, in the fall of 1904, delivered a series of five lectures on "The Study of Popular Government." The lectures this year will probably be given...
...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 his supervision. Under these commissioners the proper experts are employed and principles of business are followed. Another illustration of the working of government by commission is in the city of Washington, D. C., where...
Besides the main office, there are five branches: the Sailors' branch in the Battery, the East Side branch, the West Side branch, and branches in Brooklyn and Harlem. The Sailors' branch deals with the impositions practiced upon seamen, and has done much in the last twenty years to raise the legal standard of the sailor. The East and West Side divisions both practice among foreigners and the lowest classes, and do much good in settling the petty cases of the neighborhood. With these objects in view, and partly to discourage the litigious spirit among the lower classes, the purpose...
Professor David G. Lyon h.'01 will deliver the last of his series of five lectures on "Palestine" in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The subject of the lecture is "Samaria, Samaritan Passover," and will be illustrated by stereopticon views. The lecture is open to the public...
...historian who realized the importance and influence of the political institutions of a country. He takes for the starting point in his history the period of the three great wars, namely--Rome and Carthage, the Leagues in Greece, and Antiochus and Ptolemy. His forty books, of which five are completely extant, are the first books of universal, connected history, treated in a chronological order. As Thucydides was an artist, so was Polybius a teacher. The historical value of the writings of Polybius cannot be too highly valued because of their accuracy and impartiality...