Word: commonwealths
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...College's scholars and be conducive to corrupting their morals. Hancock silenced the President and Fellows with a grant of two hundred pounds per annum for the toll bridge concession. But Hancock's profitable monopoly suffered thereupon from a bridge-building craze which lasted down to 1858 when the Commonwealth took over all the bridges. Harvard, in the meantime, continuing to assess each bridge entrepreneur for two or three hundred pounds, suffered no ill-effects...
Ninety musicians of the University Band treated members of the Harvard Club of Boston to a generous helping of college song and medleys last night at a special concert in the Club's Commonwealth Avenue home...
Last term the Society presented, on an informal basis, David Lewis, Executive Secretary of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation of Canada, and Harry Laidler, Executive Director of the League for Industrial Democracy, with which the Society at College is loosely affiliated...
...Party. The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation is only 14 years old. Besides controlling the government of Saskatchewan, it is the official opposition in three of the Dominion's nine provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba and Nova Scotia). It is Canada's No. 3 party and has 28 seats (out of 245) in the House of Commons at Ottawa. Its national leader, Major James Coldwell, 58, is one of the most admired men in the House; by many politicians of all parties, he is regarded as prime-ministerial timber...
Negotiations are in progress for a lecture by author James T. Farrell sometime this spring. Last term the group heard David Lewis, executive secretary of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation of Canada...