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...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...
...talk on "The Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition and Plans for Future Polar Research" in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. He will outline, for the first time, his new theory for reaching the North Pole, which he hopes to employ in his next Arctic expedition. Vast ice-floes, starting from Behring Sea, have floated across the comparatively open water around the North Pole, into the region near Greenland. Mr. Baldwin intends to establish a camp of portable houses, with an adequate supply of fuel and provisions, on one of these ice floes...
...tomorrow evening and on December 6, at 7.30 o'clock. Seats on the floor will be reserved until 7.25 o'clock for members of the University and friends accompanying them. The gallery will be open to the public at 7 o'clock. Dr. McClure will conduct morning prayers from next Monday to Saturday, December 12, inclusive, and will have charge of the vesper service on the afternoon of Thursday, December 10, at 5 o'clock, which will be the first vesper service of the year...
...first of a series of Sunday entertainments in Phillips Brooks House will be held next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The entertainments are planned chiefly for men who stay in Cambridge over Sunday; light refreshments will be served, and an opportunity will be given for men to enjoy a social hour together. There will always be music, and Professor Wise will be present to introduce men to each other...
...Baldwin, the arctic explorer, will speak on "the Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition and Plans for Future Polar Research" in the Living Room of the Union next Tuesday evening. In his lecture he will describe his experiences with the expedition and will explain his ideas for the success of future polar research, which have never before been made public. Mr. Baldwin accompanied Commodore Peary in his dash for the North Pole in 1893. Five years later he went with the Wellman polar expedition. He also travelled to Spitzbergen in order to go with Andree in his balloon trip over the Arctic...