Word: methods
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Moorfield Storey '66 delivered a forcible lecture on "The Philippine Question" in the Living Room of the Union last evening. He outlined the present conditions in the islands and explained the only possible method of doing away with the existing evils...
...said, "No man is good enough to govern another without that one's consent." Yet we keep the Philippine Islands without the least regard to the wishes of the natives. Out of these conditions two questions arise: first, the question of right and the possibility of success; second, the method of escape from our position, in case our present policy is sure to fail. This is the Philippine problem...
...Egypt for 18 years; we have had four governors of the islands in eight years. The news that we receive from the East is neither complete nor exact. Only the reports that are allowed to be sent are what we get in this country. There is no method of expressing public opinion and feeling in the Philippines; as a result our officials, secure in their distance from America and without the ever-threatening power of the press, do whatever they please...
...London Economist," who delivered a lecture on "The London Money Market" yesterday afternoon, will speak on "The Political Economy of War" in Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock. He will take up the effect of war on labor and industry, its economic consequences, and the best method of financing it: and he will describe the modern competitions in armament and will discuss the naval rivalry of nations. The lecture will be open to the public...
...next question is whether competent and successful business men will accept the positions if elected. President Eliot is of the opinion that the efficient citizen will accept, given conditions under which he may serve his city honestly and well. Another method of increasing municipal efficiency is to lengthen the term of office. In the new charters adopted by Galveston, Houston and Des Moines, this is done, and the chiefs of the city departments hold office for long periods. The three fundamental fea tures, however, of the system under which reform can best be secured are one chamber of delegates...