Word: billing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When Sir Robert Peel tried to abolish the Tory Common Laws, Disraeli opposed him as leader of that party. In that capacity, he succeeded in attaining his goal,--the prime ministership. After the passage of the Reform Bill, his party went out of power. But the year 1874 again found him prime minister, this time as the one who should develop the Imperialist policy. Yet, in spite of his apparent vacillation, he was never suspected of outright unscrupulousness, gaining as a leader both power and respect, and adding many new territories to the English Empire...
...first story comes from the syndicated news letter of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association. This sharpeyed organization has seized upon the figures which were printed in so many papers last year, estimating Harvard's drink bill at more than her book bill, and has drawn the obvious and mistaken conclusion that Harvard fails to realize the "retarding and deteriorating effect of alcohol." The estimate really allows each student about five cents a day for alcoholic beverages. But the point that the story best illustrates is the staying quality of a good college news item. It has already been with...
Representative Carter Glass, of Virginia, chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee in the House, delivered the first of the annual series of lectures under the Trask Foundation on Thursday evening. Representative Glass took as his subject the Currency Bill, defending the measure as it has been advocated by the present administration and praising President Wilson's determination to bring about reform...
...hall will be decorated and Kanrich's band will play Yale and Harvard football songs. Tickets for this table d'hote dinner will be $1 each, but each regular member of the hall may secure one for 75 cents. All dinner tickets may be charged upon the term bill. Those regular members of the hall who do not care to secure a dinner ticket, will be served in Sanders Theatre free of charge...
...Saturday. The hall will be decorated and Kanrich's orchestra will play Harvard and Yale football songs. Tickets for this table d'hote dinner will be $1 each, but regular members of the hall may secure one for 75 cents. All dinner tickets may be charged upon the term bill. Those regular members of the hall who do not spread in Sanders Theatre by applying at the desk today or tomorrow. No spread tickets will be sold...