Word: mayors
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...United States should be increased." The Harvard Union has the affirmative and its speakers will be C. A. Duniway Gr., F. H. Smith '96, and J. P. Gately Sp. The speakers for the Trinity Club will be F. N. Perkins, J. H. Quincy, and R. C. Surbridge. Mayor Bancroft of Cambridge has been asked to preside. Members of the Harvard Union are invited to be present...
William A. Bancroft '78, was yesterday re-elected mayor of Cambridge...
...public school commissioners, he said, should be a body of men appointed by the mayor, the number to be limited to ten. This board should be changed every five or seven years. Members of this board to receive no remuneration, for in this way men can be obtained that could not be induced to serve for the pay that the city would be willing to offer them. It has generally been found true that the best service is to be obtained from unpaid overseers. This board should have power to appoint agents to attend to the detailed service...
...very hearty support. All students who care to interest themselves are invited to go to the Wednesday evening lectures. Next Wednesday evening a "house-warming" meeting will be held in the new quarters, the old City Hall, and will be addressed by President Eliot, Hon. W. E. Russell, Mayor Bancroft and others. To this is all students are invited. It is hoped that those who feel an interest in the Union will show it by going to this meeting and giving their support...
Wendell Phillips Club.The Wendell Phillips Club held its first meeting of the year last evening. Mayor Bancroft had been invited to address the members of the society. He spoke of the value of debating clubs at Harvard as part of a man's education here. He said that there was a great lack of public speakers who were able to talk clearly and interestingly, and he urged upon the students to take advantage of the opportunities for practice in debating offered by the Harvard clubs...