A Handbook for Public Meetings
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217670265
Paperback|9780217670265
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to HENRY CECIL RAIKES, Esq., M.R, CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, AND DEPUTY SPEAKER; ONE OP MY FORMER COLLEAGUES ON THE COMMITTEE OP THE CHUJICH DEFENCE INSTITUTION; FBOM WHOM, DURING THE LONG TIME HE ACTED AS CHAIRMAN OF THAT BODY, I PEEL I DERIVED MANY LESSONS OF TACT, GOOD SENSE, AND PATIENCE, THE RECOLLECTION OF WHICH HAS HELPED ME TO WRITE THIS BOOK. chapter{{Section 4LOCAL circumstances have furnished me during the last 15 years with many opportunities of learning how a Public Meeting should be, and how it should not be conducted. I imagine that I have attended more such meetings than most people, whilst nearly 2 year's Chairmanship of a Local Board once gave me much experience of a sort not to be acquired by the study of the best written books, or by the precepts of the ablest of Tutors. The books available for the guidance of those who would get up a Public Meeting are very few in number, and none that I have seen appear to have been written by men who have served as Chairmen or Promoters of such meetings; the information afforded is therefore theoretical rather than practical. This observation will supply a clue to my aims in writing the present volume. I have endeavoured to be thoroughly practical, and as I wished to eschew. all extraneous matter of whatever kind, I have adopted a style of writing which is rather concise and to the point, than pleasant to the eye of a scholar. The term Public Meeting is a very vague one. It applies equally to a hole-and-corner meeting of 6 aggrieved parishioners in a Parish Vestry, and to an Indignation Meeting of 3000 Free Britons in St. James's Hall, to protest against the tyranny of the Russians in Turkey. Nevertheless, the leading principles of management are the same in all cases. ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217670265 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217670261 |
| Weight | 0.36 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 102 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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