Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Metropolitan--"Taft as a Presidential Candidate," by F. H. Hitchcock...
...William H. Baldwin Prize of $100 offered by the National Municipal League has been awarded for 1907-08 to Abraham Edward Pinanski 1L., for an essay on "The Street Railway System of Metropolitan Boston." This prize is offered annually for the best essay on a subject in municipal administration written by a student of any "college or university of the United States which affords distinct instruction in municipal government...
...city of Boston is also handicapped by a heavy debt, $116,000,000, and pays tremendous taxes to the state for the benefits she gets from its systems, her share of the metropolitan debt amounting to some $38,000,000. Although saddled with such a financial burden, Boston is in many respects one of the most fortunate communities on earth. The metropolitan park system, consisting of some seventy parks and playgrounds, is one of the finest in the world; the system of boulevards connecting the metropolitan reservations is nowhere excelled; the metropolitan water system has received encomiums the world over...
...essential part of the project is a moderate scale of prices for seats, which will be considerably less than those charged by the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The management of the house will be in trusted to Mr. Henry Russell, the present director of the San Carlo Company, who has had several years' experience in operatic management in Italy and in London, as well as in the United States. The opera house will probably be completed by the fall...
...club is the oldest congregational club in the country, and is composed of about 400 members from metropolitan Boston...