Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Wendell Phillips Club.The opening meeting of the Wendell Phillips Club occurs this evening in Harvard 1 at 7.30. There will be short addresses by Messrs. Stone and Apsey of the club, and by Mayor Bancroft of Cambridge. After the meeting there will be a short informal reception. The object of this meeting is to make the students familiar with the aims of the club, particularly in its social aspect, and all, especially new students, are cordially invited...
...company being formed at Harvard for military drill and discipline by Lieutenant Robinson, is now taking definite shape. At its meeting yesterday some twenty-five men presented themselves. The company adopted the name of the Harvard Rifles, repeating the old name of Mayor Bancroft's time. It also decided upon a uniform, - the undress gray cadet uniform, the same as is worn at the military academy at West Point. On Friday a measurer will come from Boston to take final measurements and orders about the suits...
...arrangements have been nearly completed for the meeting which will be held in Sanders Theatre tomorrow night to welcome new students in the University. The speakers will be President Eliot, Lieutenant-Governor Wolcott, Mayor Bancroft, and E. H. Warren '95. After the meeting a reception will be held in Memorial Hall. Refreshments will be served as last year. The meeting will begin at eight o'clock...
Question: "Resolved, That all executive duties in American cities should be concentrated in the hands of the mayor, and that his appointments should not require confirmation by aldermen or council...
...concentrating responsibilities in the office of mayor the evils of city government are not avoided. They will continue from the workings of state interference, the spoils system, and the apathy of citizens. Continuity of policy cannot be secured...