Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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What has become of the various denominational political clubs that organized with such flourish not many week ago? Those organized to support particular candidates for nomination, to be sure, apparently no longer have any distinct function as the caucuses are over. But if they are to pass out of existence, should not there be an opportunity for those who so eagerly jointed them to hear the reports of their officers, to dispose of what funds there may be in the treasuries, and constitutionally to dissolve...
...James Ford Rhodes, LL.D., h.'01, will deliver a lecture on Edwin Lawrence Godkin in Emerson D at 8 o'clock this evening. The subject is of particular significance because of the resumption of the Godkin lectures this year in the appointment of President Eilot as incumbent of the lectureship. Godkin was for many years editor of the "Nation" and the "New York Evening Post" and was at one time offered a professorship at Harvard which his duties compelled him to decline...
President Eliot assigns seven particular causes for the failure of municipal government in the United States. In the first place, "the original structure of the city government was ill suited to the work to be done; and municipal work has so changed since the American city government was constructed that a form of government, originally founded on a false analogy, has become less and less adapted to present functions." "Secondly," says President Eliot, "city business being now much more elaborate, extensive, and complicated than it was originally, inexperienced, frequently changing executive bodies, such as subcommittees of city legislative bodies, have...
...Massachusetts, told how the campaign was progressing in Massachusetts. From his recent trip to Washington, he said that no candidates are mentioned there, and that there are only two parties, drawn on sharp party lines: the administrative, who are for Taft, and the reactionary allies who are for no particular candidate but for the defeat of Taft. In New England the reactionaries are endeavoring to defeat Taft by having the delegates go to Chicago uninstructed, and the only way to combat them is for the people to vote at the caucuses, which are to be held on March...
...Historical sketch of the development of the street railway system, with particular attention to the attitude of the public toward franchise grants during the early period of street railway development...