Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Bryce, American Commonwealth, I, 134-138; Smith, Const. Manual and Digest (see "Speaker" in Index) 52 Cong. 1 Sess. 1892; Lalor, Cyclopaedia, III. 91; A. B. Hart, Practical Essays, No. 1, pp. 1-19; J. G. Carlisle in North American Review, Vol. 150, pp. 390-400 (Mch. 1890); Senator Hoar in North American Review...
...City Govt. in the U. S.; Nation, LVIII, 285 (Apr. 19, 1894); LVI, 449 (June 22, 1893); LX, 102 (Feb. 7, 1895); A. R. Foote, Municipal Ownership of Quasi-Public Works; John Stuart Mill, Political Economy, Book V, ch. 11, 1-6; Bastable, Public Finance, 184 ff; Bryce, American Commonwealth, II, 367-385 (on Philadelphia Gas Ring); A. C. Burrage, Municipal Lighting; Hadley, Railroad Transportation...
...party started on the drive through the suburbs. It was expected that this would prove one of the pleasantest features of the whole reception, but unfortunately the weather interfered, for before the drive was half over the rain was coming down hard. The party drove out over Commonwealth avenue to Brighton, and then to Soldiers Field, to give the visitors a chance to see the new athletic house and the football gridirons. From there they went to the Longfellow House, and so round to the College...
...Massachusetts prescribes that upon every school-house in the commonwealth shall be displayed the stars and strips, yet in the midst of Harvard's historic buildings, in the shadow of her traditions, the flag of our country is nowhere visible. Is it right that Harvard, of all places in the world, should have no apparant sign of her loyal spirit? Is it right that while every place of education in the country but ourselves flys the national colors, we should be without them...
...state were supporting grammar schools, but this new regulation reduced this number to less than 100. In this year district schools first put in an appearance, and helped to lessen still further the interest taken by the small towns. The district schools absorbed all the educational energy of the commonwealth. Academies supported chiefly by the state, and large private schools sprang up and flourished in the last part of the eighteenth century, and have continued with little change almost down to our own day. These schools drew their students from all parts of the state, and absorbed still more...