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...perhaps worth mentioning, in connection with these meetings, that there has been a change this year in the method of governing the observances of the local associations. Generally the subjects for the different evenings are prescribed by the association for all its branches, so that the services of any one evening have the same general character all over the country. This year, however, the choice of subjects is left entirely to the discretion of the local boards. The annual collections for the support of the International Committee of the association are also omitted this year. In fact the spirit...
...University Club of Boston is growing rapidly. Only a few weeks ago circulars were sent out to local college graduates inviting them to become members of the prospective University Club, and already nearly four hundred applications have been filed. The club will hold a meeting very soon when an organization will be perfected and rooms secured as near down town as possible. The resident membership is limited to five hundred. Among the additional three hundred odd men, who have signified their desire of joining, are the following Harvard men: T. B. Proctor, Henry Saltonstall, B. H. Ticknor...
...delightful character sketches which has appeared in the Advocate for some time is "The Awakening of Benjamin Franklin" ("last name, Jones," as the author himself parenthetically states). It is a little darkey of thirteen years, for whom heroine-worship does wonders, that the author describes and the touches of local color are carefully laid on. It is distinctly the best piece of prose in the issue...
...concerned with (1) Protection of its citizens from fire, riots, unsanitary conditions, etc. (2) Carrying on public works; e.g., street-paving, water-works, parks, etc; Lalor I, 463, Bryce I, 589, 598, 610, II, 60. - (b) It requires officers of great executive ability. - (c) Good local government is of the first importance to the citizens...
...Storey then selecting representative States of the East and West, where an election for governor is to take place this fall, illustrated with an imaginary independent voter the influence which the local virtues or sins of either party should have upon the independent's vote. In Ohio and Pennsylvania he should oppose the McKinly and Quay rings, in Maryland and New York Gorman and Tammany should be overthrown...