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...committee of representatives, whose duty will be to bring the members of the hall into closer touch with the directors, and increase if possible the attractiveness of the present system. They by laws contain a provision that "no tobacco shall be used on the premises." We have found one of the chief objections to the hall in this useless provision. The old maxim of "After breakfast walk a mile, after dinner rest a while," can scarcely be observed, when it is necessary to walk a quarter of a mile or more before enjoying a quiet after-dinner smoke. Members...
...best available account of the ideas that President Eliot has embodied in his addresses may be found in an article written by him for "The World's Work" of October, 1907. The first part of the article is devoted to an examination of the nature and origin of the governmental evils of our cities, while the second part proposes methods of reorganization and reform based on several concrete examples...
...Finance Commission was instituted to investigate the city's salary list and the needs of the city, and found hundreds of people receiving good salaries and doing not the slightest work for the city. Since then, there has been some reform, but not until this year was there any great change. The Legislature is also helping with a bill to give the Civil Service Commission the power to regulate the salaries of all city officials...
This reform plan must have the great element of permanency; for personal following is of no use unless it is permanent and organized. This organization has been held together thus far by patronage and feat; but now new cement must be found by making business men understand that the material prosperity of the country will go with good politics...
...CRIMSON publishes below a most interesting and instructive address, delivered recently by Rudyard Kipling before the students of McGill University. In an age when values are reckoned so absolutely in dollars and cents, the testimony of a man who has faced life from every possible side, and has found money a secondary aim, should demand more than passing notice...