Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Ashfield Ellis Stow '12, right guard, prepared at Urban Academy, San Francisco, where he played tackle and centre for five years. He is 20 years old, 6 feet 1 1-2 inches tall, and weighs 183 pounds...
...treatment of this subject competitors are expected to base their essays on original work, done preferably in their home towns. The topic should be considered to include elevated, underground; and street railways, but does not include the urban service of steam railways. Essays submitted by contestants must not exceed 10,000 words in length, and must be mailed or delivered to an express company not later than March 15, 1908, addressed to the "Chairman of the Committee of Judges, Care of C. R. Woodruff, Secretary of the National Municipal League, North American Building, Philadelphia," and marked for the "William...
...Munro, instructor in Government, will speak on "The Forces in Urban Concentration," this evening in Brooks parlor, Phillips Brooks House, at 7 o'clock. This will be the second of the series of talks on "Some Problems of the Modern City" which Dr. Munro will give once a week hereafter at the same place and hour. The talk this evening will deal with the causes of the rural exodus and the drift to the great cities during the past century...
Among the topics discussed in this series will be: The economic and political causes of urban concentration; the rural exodus and its causes; immigration and the municipal problems arising from congestion; the sociology of the slum; the political exploitation of the alien immigrant; naturalization and municipal politics; the municipal boss, his methods and the sources of his power; municipal problems arising from the identification of state and civic political parties...
...Munro of the Government department, Monday evenings at 7, Brooks Parlor. Among the topics discussed will be: The economic and political causes of urban concentration; the rural exodus and its causes; immigration and the municipal problems arising from congestion; the sociology of the slum; the political exploitation of the alien immi- grant; naturalization and municipal politics; the municipal "boss," his methods and the sources of his power; municipal problems arising from the identification of state and civic political parties; etc., etc. These lectures will form a consistent whole, so that a regular attendance is desired...