Word: true
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...result has come a great increase in expenditure. A majority of the voters in the cities today are not tax payers, indeed the same is true of the majority of office holders. More than two-thirds of the candidates at the last Cambridge election paid no taxes. Those who pay no taxes elect men like them selves, who will favor rockiness expenditure. The debt of cities in the United States is enormous. That of Boston increased in the last 12 years at four times the increase at the property valuation...
...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...
...problems have been few and domestic. This type of man and the older man who has spent his energies on private enterprise and whose opinions have been narrowed, are not the men to make righteous law for these ninety, millions of people. It is before the student statesman with true character and willingness to give himself up entirely to the public good, to deal with the greater and broader questions which have arisen in the last few years...
...graduate students even, is the best possible arrangement for a dormitory in giving a man opportunities for friendship with men both older and younger than himself. Whatever the possibilities of this scheme may be for men with a year or the experience in undergraduate life, it is rarely true of Freshmen, and Princeton is fortunate in being able to group a large number of their first year men near each other where they belong, rather than scattering them at random...
...Administration. It was President Eliot who foresaw that professional schools must receive only holders of the bachelor's degrees; and to him must go the credit for the greatness of our University, which, as he himself has just said, "is the only university in the country organized on a true university basis." And the strength of our university basis is increased by the organization of this new school, which is among the first recognitions on the part of the leading educators of the fact that business is a career that demands a practical preparation, and that in the zeal...