Word: powers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...laws to be adopted are much like those of the Society before its incorporation, except for the creation of the office of Treasurer with full power of supervision over the finances of the Society, and an increase in the powers of the Superintendent. The following officers elected at the annual meeting of the Society on December 10, will be formally re-elected: President, C. H. Ayres; secretary, Professor J. H. Gardiner; treasurer, William M. McInnes...
...laws to be adopted are much like those of the Society before its incorporation, except for the creation of the office of Treasurer with full power of supervision over the finances of the Society, and an increase in the powers of the Superintendent. The following officers elected at the annual meeting of the Society on December 10, will be formally re-elected: President, C. H. Ayres; secretary, Professor J. H. Gardiner; treasurer, William M. McInnes...
...rule will often result in forcing the retirement, for a year or two, of the most capable officers. This point is good, but it goes only half way. Executive ability has in both cases been treated as a fixed quality in the candidates under consideration. In reality the power to be of service to a class can only be acquired in its fullest extent through long experience in service. To forbid re-election is not only to make it possible that able men may be displaced; it is to make it impossible that the highest efficiency shall be developed...
...should be able not only to preside acceptably at class meetings, but to represent the class at public meetings, and to do effectively such work on committees and semi-official boards as his office will inevitably bring him. The other offices call likewise for competent men, men who have power of initiative and business capacity. Sometimes such men are chosen in the first place, but there is no way of being at all sure about...
...direct and immediate share in naming the party candidates; the primary becomes in fact a primary election. The plan has already been adopted in several states, and has given almost universal satisfaction. It has aroused an interest among the voters to secure good nominees, and has materially lessened the power of the party "bosses...