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...Godkin lectures are delivered under an endowment given in 1903 in memory of Edward L. Godkin, founder of the Nation, for the delivery and publication of annual lectures upon "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen." The lectures this year deal particularly with the problems of local Government in the United States. The remaining lectures of the series will be given on Friday, Monday, and Wednesday, December...
Giving the second of the Godkin lectures on United States Government, Murray Seasongood '00, professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati, and former mayor of Cincinnati, will speak this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D on "Local Government in the United States, a Challenge and an Opportunity." Having traced the movement for reform in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio to 1923 in his first lecture given Monday, Mr. Seasongood will explain this afternoon the political regeneration of this locality as an example of successful reform in local government...
...Corrupt and incompetent local government received little attention in view of the losses and increased living expenses in the period of inflation after the World War," declared Murray Season-good '00, former mayor of Cincinnati and Godkin Lecturer. "With so much money to be made in business and the professions, it seemed wholly unimportant that the bosses were accumulating huge fortunes illegally...
Commencing a series of public lectures on local government in the United States, Murray Seasongood '00, former Mayor of Cincinnati and Godkin lecturer at Harvard for the current year, will speak at 4 o'clock today in Emerson Hall. His lecture will be open to the public...
...Godkin lectures are delivered under an endowment given to the University in 1903 by the friends of E. L. Godkin, founder and for many years editor of "The Nation," as a memorial of his long and distinguished service to the country of his adoption. The income of the fund is devoted to annual lectures by distinguished authorities upon some aspect of the subject: "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen." This year's lectures will deal particularly with the problems of local government in the United States...