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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...universities have contributed to the preparation of the present staff of the Bureau of Municipal Research of New York City: Amherst, Carleton, Chicago, Clark, Columbia, Cornell, DePauw, Harvard, Iowa, New York, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Smith, Tufts. Berlin, Halle, Leipsic and the Sorbonne have added touches here and there. Just what part did colleges have in fitting the college graduates on our staff for municipal research? During the college days, neither their instructors nor themselves had ever contemplated a work such as that in which they are now engaged. Some of them prepared for law, others for teaching...
Last year President Roosevelt urged the members of the Intercollegiate Civic League to take an intelligent, disinterested and practical part in the everyday duties of the average citizen. At present it is impossible for intelligent men to take an intelligent part in the duties of citizenship, because city records are so kept that they either tell falsehoods or only a small part of the truth necessary to intelligent judgment. If the presidents of the colleges above mentioned were to be sent to Boston to serve as the small commission which President Eliot urges to reform municipal government in the United...
...general organization including ten colleges has been formed, and a permanent secretary will soon be elected. R. S. Hoar '09 is now acting secretary. Democratic Clubs have already been formed at Columbia, Princeton, and the Universities of Louisiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Michigan and California. The clubs will take an active part in the presidential campaign...
...members of the team who will take part this afternoon are: W. C. Bennett '08, A. S. Burnham '10, E. G. Schauroth '10, E. L. Souder '10, G. S. Taylor '08, J. Tyng '08. The events will be as follows: flying rings, tumbling, club swinging, parallel bars, horizontal bar, side horse...
...Deutscher Verein deserves to be commended for the active part it has taken in making its members acquainted with prominent guests, and for its success in imparting to the organization a truly German atmosphere. The celebration this evening is indicative of the spirit in which the Verein is conducted. Possibly the unusual activity this year is due to peculiar causes; but whatever the reason, the other foreign societies will do well to follow this plan, and endeavor to be really representative of the countries for which they stand. Our foreign societies are too much inclined to feel free from their...