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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...
...GODKIN LECTURES. III. "Municipal Reform: Iowa Experiments and their Objects; School Committee Experiments." President Eliot. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...GODKIN LECTURES. III. "Municipal Reforms: Iowa Experiments." and their Objects; School Committee Experiments." President Eliot. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "The Greenback Movement, with Special Reference to Iowa and Wisconsin." Mr. C. O. Ruggles. University...
...present commission system of city government dates from the Galveston flood, when that city adopted it in her crisis. In Iowa the city of Des Moines has taken it up, and Newport, with a council of 200 men from her five wards, is a very successful example...