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During the fall and winter of the current academic year President Eliot has spoken before economic and citizens' clubs in various cities of Massachusetts on "Municipal Government by Commission." Among others he has filled the following engagements: October 25, Salem Board of Trade, Salem; October 31, Economic Club, Worcester; November 13, Men's Club of Portland Street Baptist Church, Haverhill; December 2, Economic Club, Springfield; December 10, Lowell Board of Trade, Lowell; January 30, Citizens' Association of Quincy; February 5, Lynn Twentieth Century Club, Lynn; and February 27, Parish Club, Cambridge. He also addressed the members of the Harvard Union...
...Museum has also received a large case of specimens of economic mineralogy. This collection includes samples of many articles of trade which are made from the earth. There are samples of asbestos, both in the commercial form and as it appears in the rocks. Carborundum is shown beside samples of quartz and coke, from which it is made...
...next speaker, Mr. John C. Cobb, president of the Boston Associated Board of Trade, and manager of the Taft campaign in Massachusetts, told how the campaign was progressing in Massachusetts. From his recent trip to Washington, he said that no candidates are mentioned there, and that there are only two parties, drawn on sharp party lines: the administrative, who are for Taft, and the reactionary allies who are for no particular candidate but for the defeat of Taft. In New England the reactionaries are endeavoring to defeat Taft by having the delegates go to Chicago uninstructed, and the only...
...clock. Three interesting and prominent speakers, actively engaged in the Taft campaign, will address the club. Hon. James J. Myers '69, of Cambridge, ex-speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and trustee of the Mackay Estate; Mr. John C. Cobb, president of the Boston Associated Board of Trade and manager of the Taft campaingn in Massachusetts; and Mr. Samuel J. Elder, of Winchester, a well-known Boston lawyer and Yale graduate have been chosen. Any men not members of the Taft Club may join at this meeting...
...Department has taken steps to come into closer relations with the commercial interests of the country, and with that view invited delegates in December last from the leading commercial and trade organizations of the principal cities, with a view, not of creating a new national board of trade, but a small delegated body with a permanent seat in Washington, which would represent the entire commercial and trade interests of the country, and would not only co-operate, but be constantly in touch, with it and other departments in promoting the best interests of commerce at home and abroad. The governments...