Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Council of Boston. By our constitutional form of government the power is greatly divided and divided power means divided responsibility. This division makes the national and state government very expensive and causes not a little inefficiency. The same theory of government has been carried down into the cities The mayor corresponds to the president and there are legislative bodies which have functions similar to those of the two houses of Congress. There is, however, no judicial department in the cities. In the municipal government, then, we have also a division of responsibility but there is not the same necessity...
...English cities responsibility is concentrated in the legislative bodies; the mayor is but their chief. In America the tendency is directly the opposite...
Today is the last day for signing the petition to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. The petition as stated in Thursday's CRIMSON is for the purpose of having established an additional stopping place for the electric cars at the main entrance to the college yard, between Holyoke and Linden Streets. Every one must appreciate the need and advantage of such a stopping place and as it is wished to have at least five hundred signatures, every one who has not yet signed is urgently asked to do so today at Leavitt & Peirce...
...petition to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to establish an additional stopping place opposite the entrance to the college yard which is now open for signatures at Leavitt & Peirce's reads as follows...
...honorable the Mayor and Board...