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...first of the Godkin lectures for this year was delivered last night in the Fogg Lecture Room by President Eliot on "Municipal Mis-Government." After a short tribute to Edwin L. Godkin as one who for a generation advocated reform and fought corruption, the lecturer began his outline of the facts of municipal Mis-government, their causes, and results. The succeeding four lectures will relate experiments in reform...
...GODKIN LECTURES. I. "Municipal Mis-Government; the Evils and their Causes." President Eliot. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
President Eliot will deliver the first of the Godkin Lectures for 1907-08 on "Municipal Government" in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock, taking as his subject "Municipal Mis-Government; the Evils and their Causes." The lecture will be open to the public...
...tank to practise in, and no material but those men who will sacrifice a whole season of football or baseball for 2 or 3 swimming events, where time by the most approved stop-watches never exceeds four minutes, yet is by common consent of the legislators pronounced an extravagant mis-appropriation of time, energy, and gray matter. Lest such wholesale absorption of athletics be increased they have made the two-season rule...
...which the first eleven again showed its inability to defeat the second team. Among the other unsatisfactory features was the punting practice preceeding the regular line-up, which emphasized the fact that very few of the men have yet learned to catch the ball without fumbling. The players frequently mis-judged the kicks and were too willing to receive the ball on the bounce...