Word: bill
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...Committee on Naval Affairs in the United States Senate has officially approved of the bill authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to give to Harvard University the Nordenfeldt gun, the set of colors and the silver loving cup presented to the cruiser "Harvard" at the beginning of the war with Spain by graduates and undergraduates of the University. The bill has also met the approval of Secretary Long and will probably be acted upon within a few days...
...plans for the new Cambridge Hotel have been considerably altered by the recent petition for the Parkway. If the bill passes, the site on Massachusetts avenue, directly opposite Beck Hall, where the College Inn now stands, will be a very desirable locality for the erection of the hotel; and the Wesselhoeft grounds on Harvard street, where it was proposed to build, will be given up in favor of it. No definite steps will be taken, however, toward building on either site until the petition has been determined. It has been decided to organize a stock company, which shall have sole...
...rendered reads as follows: "No student shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public contest who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood." Additional evidence has only recently been sent to Harvard in the shape of a receipted bill showing conclusively that Mr. Cutts had been paid in 1899 for giving boxing lessons to a boy in the preparatory school where he taught. He was therefore clearly ineligible by the Harvard rule...
National: "The Isthmian Canal, the Subsidy Bill and a Mighty Navy," by J. C. Coombs...
...premium on temperate men for employees. As long as all the passions of men can be exploited together, by private capitalists for great personal gain, they will be more powerful than the most drastic law that can be framed. The Committee of Fifty tried to secure an experimental bill in Massachusetts to throw all liquor dealing and traffic into a monopoly so that fewer attractions to drink would be offered, and it was defeated by a very narrow margin. The Gottenberg system, which has produced results in Norway far ahead of any other systems elsewhere, has now been started...