Abstract of a course of ten lectures on municipal administration in Montreal.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
It Means Loss of Patriotism.Special Need for this Study in Montreal.authorities.Defective municipal administration, therefore, means a high death rate, exposure to contagious diseases, and the constant bringing to maturity of a type of manhood and womanhood of which no city can be proud.Although the loss in money to a community through municipal mismanagement is bad, although deterioration in health is worse, worst of all is loss of character.It was through centuries of struggle that the privileges of self-government, so freely enjoyed by us to-day, were won.Time was when a man prized his franchise as he prized his life.10 for which we are to strive.It is because this principle is recog- nized and followed out to its logical conclusion that the humblest workingman in nearly every British municipality enjoys benefits unknown to us carried Out." g Tno tw0 desiderata before the eyes of the ideal city government are, first, the obtaining of sources of revenue other than taxation, and, secondly, the instituting of some new privilege for the use of the people.Many cities throughout great Britain control and operate, with profit, their municipal monopolies, such as street rail- ways, gas, water, &c.From these, when properly administered, a large revenue accrues.English cities of about the same size as our own, as for example Bradford, Hull and Nottingham, obtain 50 per cent, of their annual receipts from the successful management of municipal assets.In Glasgow, this proportion reaches 70 per cent.By just this proportion is the tax rate reduced.. Manifold,, also, are the measures by which the enlightened British munici- palities are furthering the health, the instruction, the recreation, the comfort and the convenience of the people in general, and of the working classes in particular.Public halls and gardens, libraries and museums, art galleries, technical and trades schools, public baths, wash-houses, low-priced dwellings, cheap lodgings, On March 29th, 1845, an Act (known as 8 Vic.Cap.59) was passed byi845.the Legislature of the Province of Canada, to amend and consoli- date all previous enactments dealing with the city.This consoli- dated charter contained eighty-three articles, and in it we notice a gradual withdrawing from the general municipal law of the pro-
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.351 | 0.065 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".