Word: shared
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...More equitable. The above plan would distribute the cost of board more equitably than at present. Each man would pay for his share, and for his alone, of the most expensive part by far of the provisions. The cost of service would still be divided equally as at present...
...officially announced during the vacation that Yale has received a large collection of Egyptian antiquities as the annual donation from the Egypt exploration fund, and representing Connecticut's share in that fund for the current year...
...remedy for this state of affairs, the system of direct nomination by the caucus has been introduced. By this system, the nominating convention is done away with and each voter is given a 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...
...Society should be incorporated with a charter which embodies these following features: The number of shares originally authorized should be as large as the maximum probable ticket membership of the Society for any number of years to come. The par value of each share should be the price of a membership ticket at present, one dollar; or, if that be not feasible under the Massachusetts law, as one of the Committee's legal supporters has already tentatively objected, two dollars, which would be sufficient to remove any "small capital" difficulty. One share of stock should belong to each member...
...making of leases. Under the present loose organization, the officers have been obliged to assume responsibility by signing some of the leases. This vague responsibility becomes more serious with the enlarged business. In the second place, experience has proved that the members do not wish to take active share in the management. The attendance at annual meetings, it is believed, has never within the eighteen years been more than 50 out of 2,000 to 2,500. These two difficulties taken together are serious. Thirty men by combining could have controlled any one of those annual meetings and elected...