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...previous years the Political Club is offering to men interested in practical politics a chance to see the workings at the polls in the Boston city election next Tuesday. The Public School Association, which is led by Major Higginson and was recently addressed at Tremont Temple by President Eliot, desires a certain number of men to check off the voters at the booths and to hunt up delinquent voters. The association aims at keeping the Boston School Board out of politics and is absolutely non-partisan and non-sectarian. Its effect has been to give a more efficient and honest...
...Bowditch, who is a deep student of this difficult subject, has not only shown much interest in the archaeological discoveries in the ruined cities of Yucatan, Mexico, but has also aided substantially in raising funds for the recent explorations carried on in those regions by the Peabody Museum. He is particularly interested in the attempts at deciphering hieroglyphics on monuments of the Maya people, and will discuss the methods employed in making out these inscriptions, as well as the progress which has been made in their explanation...
...previous years the Political Club is offering to men interested in practical politics a chance to see the workings at the polls in the Boston city election next Tuesday. The Public School Association, which is led by Major Higginson and was recently addressed at Tremont Temple by President Eliot, desires a certain number of men to check off the voters at the booths and to hunt up delinquent voters. The association aims at keeping the Boston School Board out of politics and is absolutely non-partisan and non-sectarian. Its effect has been to give a more efficient and honest...
...Behring Sea arbitration at Paris in 1893, was a member of the Anglo-Canadian Commission in 1898, and presided at the conference of the National Arbitration Committee held in Washington last January. At the invitation of China and Japan he participated in the peace negotiations which closed the recent war between these countries. Mr. Foster studied for one year in the Harvard Law School. He served in the Civil War with the rank of colonel, and was brevetted brigadier-general for bravery. He is the author of "A Century of American Diplomacy" and "American Diplomacy in the Orient...
...will speak from information gathered during his extended diplomatic services abroad. Mr. Foster, who was Secretary of State during the administration of President Harrison, has been United States ambassador to China, Mexico and Russia; and, at the invitation of both Japan and China, concluded the treaty which closed the recent war between these countries. He was United States consul before the arbitration board in London which settled in our favor the late Alaskan boundary dispute...