Word: local
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clock Secretary C. R. Woodruff will address the National Municipal League on "The Battle for Betterment," and Hon. Brand Whitlock, Mayor of Toledo, Ohio, will speak on "National Parties in Local Elections...
...reputation will speak on some broad phase of political life. These lectures will be open to all members of the University, but the remainder of the meetings will be for members of the Political Club only. At these small meetings it is planned to have someone speak on practical local politics, the purpose being to given men a working knowledge of political machinery. Opportunities will be given men to learn something of politics at first hand by taking active part in the political campaigns. The officers in charge this year are: President, H. M. Gilmore '08; vice-president, H. Channing...
Government--Principles of American government, national, state, and local. Professor A. B. Hart, Friday afternoons...
...certain lines of inquiry that Mr. Waters's researches have opened. The identity of Harvard's father, Robert Harvard, and of his mother, Katherine Rogers, has been established, and his mother has been traced to Stratford. The house of Alderman Rogers, a colleague of Shakespeare's father in the local government, has been found, and as the early home of John Harvard's mother, is hereafter to be known as the Harvard House. As Mr. Waters's article concludes, John Harvard is no longer to be regarded as a semi-mythical figure, for he is really better known than most...
...fiction in this number of the Advocate, Mr. Frederick Moore's sketch "Adam and Eva, deserves first mention. It is a study of local color and character so truthful in substance and treatment that one is uncertain whether it is rightly classed under the head of fiction. The material is of the slightest; on a hot summer night a student involuntarily in Cambridge, amuses himself on the steps of his dormitory by engaging in conversation three little street waifs that chance by. The atmosphere is admirably reproduced by a few telling lines and the children are treated with something...