Word: small
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tube in the outer wall of the observing room to the eye-piece. Light from an object under observation undergoes three reflections before it reaches the observer. It is first received by the 60-inch mirror at the bottom of the tube, which throws it up to a second small mirror mounted centrally within and near the end of the tube. The second mirror returns the light down the tube to a third mirror, and by this it is reflected through the air to the eye-piece, in front of which the rays finally converge to a focus and form...
President Eliot believes that the number of commissioners should be kept small, never exceeding seven. To the objection that a small commission is undemocratic, he replies that the charter constituting it proceeds from the people and that the renewing of the commission is in the hands of the people by means of election. But there are other guarantees of democracy; the initiative and referendum, the daily and weekly press, and the method of public hearing...
...Godkin Lecturer for the current year, an appointment recently given him by the Corporation, he will probably develop the subject of "Municipal Government by Commission" more fully and present it in a series of addresses. The Godkin Lectureship was established in 1903 from a fund contributed mainly in small amounts from many sources as a memorial to Edwin Laurence Godkin, for a long time editor of the "Nation" and the "New York Post." Lectures on this foundation are to treat "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen," or some similar subject. President Eliot is the second...
...property, amounting in all to about two acres, on the south side of the field. This gave the field a square shape entirely surrounded by streets and public reservations, but with an irregular boundary line on the south side. This line has since been made straight by exchanging small pieces of land with the city of Boston. Eventually there will be a street along this side of the field, and a fence built which will entirely enclose it. A road is now being built around the field inside the fence which will be lined with trees and used...
...progress of reclamation of Soldiers Field has been slow and irregular. In 1905 and again in 1906 small portions of the land now available were reclaimed, but since then nothing has been done except of a rudimentary nature. The total area of the field as it is now bounded is about 61 acres. Of this about 24 acres are entirely developed, about 9 acres are underdrained but not ready for use until a proper surface has been placed upon it, and about 28 acres are entirely undeveloped...