Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill extends the franchise to 14,000,000 men of the age of 30 or over, except felons and persons dependent for support on public charity. In the case of peers, the heads of the houses receive the franchise provided that they are 25 years old. The new law will not be used for four years unless the Diet is dissolved before, owing to a Government resignation...
Under the old law, only 3,000,000 were enfranchised. The age limit was 25 but each voter was required to pay taxes of not less than three yean ($1.50) per annum...
...when the whole fabric of education totters on the brink of ruin, one can not but rejoice in the fact that the demonstrations in front of the dean's house were orderly. Nothing was lost but an Apache cap and a false beard worn by a student under the age limit for embryo lawyers...
...untimely death of Mr. Geer puts an end to a work which has profoundly affected the University. He was 41 years of age and in his sixth year at Harvard. Many of the advances which have made the department of physical education at Harvard one of the strongest in the country are directly attributed to Mr. Geer...
...Susan Anthony Potter, Heleu Choate Bell, and Winthrop Sargent prize competitions for essays on Literature will close tomorrow. A Potter prize of $100 will be given for the best essay on a subject in the field of Comparative Literature, one of $75 for the best essay concerning the Middle Ages or Renaissance, and a third of $75 for an essay on the Golden Age of Spanish literature. To the winner of the Bell prize $300 is awarded for the best essay on a subject in American literature. An essay on Shakespeare will receive the $100 award from the Winthrop Sargent...