Word: billing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Speech on General Amnesty," Schurz; A. R. Ellis '07, "Gunga Din," Kipling; H. Hurwitz '08, "Against Dismembering Mexico," Corwin; E. R. Brumley '07, "The Nomination of James G. Blaine at Cincinnati, 1876," Ingersoll; E. F. Tyson '07, "The Better Part," Washington; J. Adams, Jr., '08, "On the Irish Disturbance Bill," O'Connell; I. L. Sharfman '07, "The Puritan Principle: Liberty under the Law," Curtis; G. I. Lewis 08, "Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 1896," Russell...
...bill to tax college property occupied for residential purposes, which was passed by the Massachusetts State Senate on April 24, was yesterday defeated by the House of Representatives by a vote...
...defeat of the bill, which is due mainly to the activity of several of the leading Massachusetts educators, including President Eliot, President Hopkins of Williams, President Harris of Amherst, and President Pritchett of Technology, means that the past policy of the Commonwealth to exempt public educational institutions from any taxation on their property will be continued, and that the expenses of these institutions will not be increased by this unnecessary...
President Eliot was one of the leading speakers at a public meeting held in Faneuil Hall, Boston, yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of advancing the cause of the public opinion bill which is now before the State Legislature. The bill aims to increase the use of the referendum and the introduction of the popular initiative...
Robert Treat Paine '88 presided, and introduced President Eliot, who said that he firmly believed in the bill which, in principle, will bring about more public interest in legislation, although the details of the bill might, in his estimation, be altered. He said that by its very essence, the opinion of hundreds of thousands of people is bound to be more accurate and more representative than any expression now given by legislators exposed to political influences...