Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Directors who introduced the audit were elected at a meeting attended by less than thirty members. They had made no general appeal to the Society at 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...
...Jerome will speak at 8 o'clock tonight in the Living Room of the Union. His talk will deal principally with the subject of municipal reform in New York...
...Andrew. Courses 10 and 11 which were formerly given by Professor Ashley as full courses in alternateyears will both be given in 1902-03 as half-courses by Mr. Gay. Course 5 on railways etc. will be given as a half-course. Economics 14 on methods of Social reform will be made a full course; 9 and 9a are combined into a full course on labor and industrial organization and will be given by Professor Ripley who has recently been appointed a full professor in the department...
...Theatre; and on Saturday evening he will give an address in the living room of the Union. Mr. Jerome is District-Attorney of the city of New York and brought himself greatly into prominence during the recent campaign against vice in that city. He will probably speak on municipal reform...
Previous to holding his present position as the head of the University Settlement Mr. Hunter was identified with reform in Chicago. He succeeded Mr. J. B. Reynolds, now secretary to Mayor Low, and has already been very successful in his new position...