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This is the first of several lectures the CRIMSON hopes to be able to arrange each year on various aspects of newspaper and magazine work by prominent journalists. The address tonight the position and influence of our newspapers and magazines and about the opportunities they offer to college men, from one of the most earnest and progressive editors in New York...
During the fall and winter of the current academic year President Eliot has spoken before economic and citizens' clubs in various cities of Massachusetts on "Municipal Government by Commission." Among others he has filled the following engagements: October 25, Salem Board of Trade, Salem; October 31, Economic Club, Worcester; November 13, Men's Club of Portland Street Baptist Church, Haverhill; December 2, Economic Club, Springfield; December 10, Lowell Board of Trade, Lowell; January 30, Citizens' Association of Quincy; February 5, Lynn Twentieth Century Club, Lynn; and February 27, Parish Club, Cambridge. He also addressed the members of the Harvard Union...
...failure is that "the city taxpayers have lost control over the expenditures of the tax money they have paid in." "Fifthly, the unit of area for taxation is so defined geographically that a just system of taxation has in many cases become impossible, and great wastes in the various branches of the city administration are inevitable." One of the most important causes is that "the practices of corporations that need public franchises have been often corrupt." And finally, "legislative remedies for these evils have been hindered by a false theory that a city ought to be an independent entity managing...
...officers of the Christian Association in eastern colleges will be held beginning Thursday, April 9, and ending Sunday. April 12, at New Haven under the auspices of the Yale University Christian Association. The object of the conference is to exchange ideas and plans for work in the various college Christian associations. Last year's conference was held at Cornell...
...committee. A business meeting will be held in the afternoon at the home of Mr. Cutting at which H. Channing '08 will preside in the place of H. M. Gilmore '08, the president of the League, who will probably be unable to be present. Papers will be read by various delegates, followed by discussion of plans for the coming year. In the evening a dinner will be held at the University Club at which General Horace Porter, Mayor McClellan and others will speak...