Word: bill
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first public hearing by the Harvard Committee on Legislation will be held in Emerson F this evening at 9 o'clock. "A Bill Relating to the Hours of Labor of Women and Children" will be presented and discussed. If the decision of the committee is favorable counsel will be retained to present the bill to the Massachusetts Legislature. The public is cordially invited to attend the meeting...
...order to do this, however, more subscriptions will be needed, and for this purpose cards will be available in Memorial during the dinner hour this evening and tomorrow evening. On these men may designate the amount they wish to subscribe, the subscription to be charged on the term bill. Kanrich's orchestra will be engaged to play two evenings each week as long as the money lasts...
...committee will receive petitions up to the closing of the docket of the Massachusetts Legislature toward the end of January from any member of the University with regard to presenting bills on any subject. The first meeting of the committee will be held on December 7 at a place to be announced later. Petitions to be discussed at this meeting must be mailed, addressed to the committee, Box 84, at least a week before the meeting, with the signed statement that the petitioner will appear and argue for the bill at the session...
...University and Harvard Graduates may apply for seats for themselves and their guests. The price of these tickets will be one dollar each. For members of the Harvard Dining Association and of the Randall Hall Association the price will be 75 cents, which may be charged upon their term bill. Application blanks can now be obtained at the Auditor's office, and must be filled out and returned before 7 o'clock Friday. Applications will be filled in the order in which they are received...
...these horrors. There was a partial blight and many evictions followed. It was then that the Land League was formed by the peasants to try and better conditions. The next year Mr. Gladstone turned his attention to the land troubles and secured temporary relief, by the passage of a bill, until in 1885 the great Land Purchase Act was passed. This measure provided that after the landlord and tenant had agreed upon a fair price for the land they should jointly apply to the state which gave the purchase money to the landlord, who from that time had no hold...