Word: powers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Next in the number is printed in full the lecture on "Illuminating Gas," delivered before the Engineering Society last November by Mr. W. E. McKay. The last article on "Storage Batteries," by P. W. Davis A.B. '93, S.B. '95, describes some of the mechanical and operating details of this power for lighting, for heating and for railways. The exposition is made clear by several cuts and diagrams...
...past, to keep the management of the Society in touch with the members. As a last resort, members will be able to use the columns of the CRIMSON for the purpose of creating an intelligent public opinion and bringing it to bear upon the shareholders. Confidence in the power of an intelligent public opinion is the fundamental presupposition underlying the proposed plan of incorporation...
...large. It so happened that they stood for an admirable reform; but the Society has no assurance that they might not have been elected had they represented a less desirable policy. In other words, given the wide-spread and habitual apathy which characterizes the members of the Society, the power of the members to elect officers and thus determine directly the policy of the Society, tends to defeat government by public opinion, it does not tend to secure it. The mere fact that persons can carry a change of policy by inducing a hand-full of persons to come...
...Board was instructed by the last annual meeting of the Society to prepare and submit a plan of reorganization and incorporation which, it was expressly stated, should not give members "power of direct management of the affairs of the Company." The retention of such power for the members was understood to be the main purpose of the minority member. Such plans were clearly out of order, and were so ruled at a meeting of all the members of the Board without a word of dissent being expressed. There being no minority report there was nothing to publish but the plan...
During the last two weeks $420 have been raised for the purchase of the new golf course. This sum makes the total subscriptions up to date $7850 and leaves a deficiency of $2400. The committee in charge of the funds will this week do all in its power to raise the required amount, $10,250, which it is necessary to have before June 1 in order to insure the land and clubhouse for the new course...