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President Eliot, in his third Godkin lecture last evening, devoted most of his time to a discussion of a system of municipal administration voled in Iowa in 1907 and now in force in Des Moines. The law is a general one, optional in cities with a population of 25,000...
All power of city government is vested in these men. The mayor has no separate powers, but is simply the presiding officer of the council. Each member of the council is charged with the administration of a department of the city's business, but the council is jointly responsible to...
From the discussion of the Des Moines system of general administration President Eliot passed on to the question of public school systems as they are in force in all various cities. The main difficulty in all municipal goverment is found in enlisting the intelligent interest of all classes of citizens...
"The Search of Belisarius," by P. S. Grant 83. Translation of "The Aeneid of Virgil, books VII to XII, by H. H. Balard '04. "Selections from Chaucer," edited by E. A. Greenlaw p.'03; "Fennel and Rue," by W. D. Howells h.'76; "The Old Room," by C. A. Ewald...
There are eight notable evils of city government in this country today. First is an evil not peculiar to the city, but having a deeper effect there than elsewhere--the spoils system. In cities even the laborers and mechanics are employed in return for their vote. By padding the city...