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...proposed Cambridge charter which has been framed in large part by members of the University Faculty is a concrete example of the kind of service which men trained in the theory of government are able to perform in behalf of the improvement of local political conditions. The proposed charter includes provisions for a number of the most successful of the changes that have been made of late in city government, the commission plan of administration, the initiative, referendum and recall, the short ballot and preferential voting. If accepted and administered in the right way, the proposed charter should put Cambridge...
Little by little the international peace movement is shifting from the realm of theory to the world of actual facts. The first definite steps were taken in its behalf at the Hague Conferences in 1899 and 1907. A tribunal was established to decide such international differences as did not touch the national honor or vital interests of the parties. The Declaration of London, not yet accepted, embodies a set of rules by which such international disputes shall be decided. The latest step in the same direction was taken last spring when the Taft administration opened negotiations for the peace treaties...
...Andover Theological Seminary, will deliver the dedication address, and Rev. G. A. Gordon, D.D. '81, Pastor of the Old South Church, Boston, will give the dedicatory prayer. After these services, Rev. George Harris, D.D., LL.D., h.'99, President of Amherst College, will make a brief statement in behalf of the board of trustees...
...meeting was presided over by L. D. Smith '12, who introduced as the first speaker of the evening Professor Bliss Perry, who welcomed the students to Brooks House in behalf of the Faculty. He said that at first everything would seem strange and new to men just entering College. But he urged all to mix in College activities, feeling certain that soon the strangeness would wear off. College is simply a place where broader fields are opened, not a place where any radical change in life takes place. However, there is no place in College for bluffers. When...
...Gray '12, president of the Advocate, spoke in behalf of the literary interests of the College. Candidates meetings will soon be held to gather new men to support the papers which represent Harvard in the schools and cities of the country...