Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first of the Godkin lectures for this year was delivered last night in the Fogg Lecture Room by President Eliot on "Municipal Mis-Government." After a short tribute to Edwin L. Godkin as one who for a generation advocated reform and fought corruption, the lecturer began his outline of the facts of municipal Mis-government, their causes, and results. The succeeding four lectures will relate experiments in reform...
...next lecture, tomorrow, will consider the experiments in municipal reform made in Massachusetts and Texas
GODKIN LECTURES. II. "Municipal Reform; Massachusetts and Texas Experiments and Their Objects." President Eliot. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...great arguments of those who favor the commission of a few men is that the voter has a better hold on them, and that they can be more intelligently elected. The great body of voters are really ignorant of actual municipal problems, and the only true reform lies in some broadening method of getting the people into closer touch with the city business. The more members of the council, the better the government will be, because more voters will know of its actions. The New England town meeting is the simplest and best form, because of its extreme personal relations...
...attitude taken by swimmers is the same as that taken by all other participants in winter sports--that it is an injustice to abolish all forms of intercollegiate winter sport in order to save the schedules of fall and spring sports in their entirety. The proposed "reform" appears to their minds more punitive than corrective...