Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Seth Low in Problem of City Government; H. H. Darling in Harvard Monthly for March, 1889, pp. 21-34; Bryce's Amer. Commonwealth, II, Chap. 62-68; Nation, vol. 43, pp. 280, 362; John Fiske, Civil Government, p. 124, 139; T. Roosevelt, Essays in Practical Politics...
Best general references: Bryce's American Commonwealth, Chap. L-LXVIII, Fiske; Civil Government, pp. 120-136. Lalor's Enc. I, 460, Pol. Sci. Quart...
...interesting to examine the qualifications necessary for a student to vote. Any citizen who wishes to cast his ballot must register (registration for this year closed a week ago Saturday), and must have paid some state or county tax, assessed upon him in any part of the commonwealth within two years of election day. He must also possess a domicil in the city or town where he wishes to vote. Whether students posses such a domicil in Cambridge or not is a question which has been little understood, though the law seems perfectly plain on this subject. On the 15th...
...blow at the interests of Massachusetts. - (a) It means an entire change of point on the tariff issue, threatening (1) the stability of many industries, and (2) the continued prosperity of the working classes. - (b) It gives countenance to an unsound currency, disastrous to moneyed interests of the Commonwealth: Lodge's speech of Sept. 17, Hoar's speech in Boston Journal of Sept. 23, Harper's Weekly...
...planted by this year's senior class at Princeton was presented by James P. Bryce, M. P., author of the "American Commonwealth...