Word: lowa
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Corporation of the University, left Cambridge late Friday night for Washington. D. C. where he has both personal and college business to attend to. It is uncertain how long this business will keep him in Washington, but, at the completion of it, he will go west to Burlington, lowa, to arrange about the Charles Eliot Perkins Scholarships which were presented to the University early this fall by Mrs. Perkins. Mr. Greene will be gone about two weeks...
...other invited guests in Memorial Hall whence they will be escorted to Sanders Theatre, where the formal dedicatory exercises will be held. Academic dress will be worn. Among the speakers at these exercises will be President Eliot, President Lowell and Dr. G. V. I. Brown of the University of lowa. The Alumni Chorus will be present and render three pieces during the ceremonies...
...meeting of the Student Council held last evening, F. M. Blagden '09, of New York, P. M. Henry '09, of Des Moines, lowa, and H. Fish, Jr., '10, of Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y., were elected as the three members of the Council from the College at large. Those elected as officers of the Council were: president, E. P. Currier '09; vice-president, W. M. Rand '09; secretary, R. M. Middlemass '09. It was decided that they should hold office for the first half-year only...
...confronted by the arguments of those who say that universal suffrage is to blame for the great evils in municipal government, in that men have viewed their development with composure and indifference. To this it may be answered that experiments in municipal reform in Massachusetts, Texas and lowa have shown that universal suffrage may choose men of both honesty and ability. There has never been a case of corruption in all the school boards that have been elected by universal suffrage. The working classes do not at present realize the evils existing in American city government; but when this appreciation...
President Eliot will deliver the third lecture of the Godkin series on "Municipal Reform; lowa Experiments and their objects" in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. The final lecture, "Municipal Reform: the Promising Directions for Further Experimentation; One Board, Election at Large, Publicity, State Supervision, and Popular Control," will be given Friday. The lectures are open to the public...