Word: states
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...sale for Harvard graduates will be held in Boston on Thursday and Friday, June 11 and 12, from 12 to 2 o'clock at 92 State street. Applications for seats from graduates living at a distance from Cambridge will be received by mail up to 6 P. M. Friday, June...
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE. Meeting at 50 State street, Bosten...
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE. Meeting at 50 State street, Boston...
...experiments in reform that have been already tried clearly show the superiority of one board, elected at large, and restrained in the exercise of its powers by publicity, state supervision, and popular control. The experiment of one board has been successful wherever it has been tried. A small board, moreover, is to be preferred to a large board, as it is possible for the community to choose five men intelligently, while a wise selection is difficult when there are seventy-five men to be elected, as in the case of the city councils of the present...
...service of corporations an opportunity to rise, while they see in municipal government only a machine that has long since been proved to be absolutely useless. To obtain better machinery in municipal government, then, is an object to be desired. This end would be furthered by an increase in state supervision over and in popular control of our city governments. State supervision has enormously increased in recent years, practically all the taxing powers of the city having been taken away, and lodged in the hands of the state legislature. This tendency is to be encouraged, since the interests of cities...