Word: establish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attention to the first bill. He declared such an institution as Harvard too great a burden for one community and that the valuations in Cambridge are one-third higher than they ought to be. Harvard is gradually acquiring land along the river, and now the Institute of Technology may establish itself here. He concluded by stating that he could not see whereby values were in any way benefited by the presence of the University...
...nominated by the people and adopt their own platforms, from which the people choose. Then the provision was added to this bill that the state legislators must pledge themselves absolutely to support or ignore the agitation for direct election of United States senators. The next move was to establish the recall, so that the people could discharge those officers who proved faithless to their trust. Immediately a Republican legislature, pledged to direct senatorial election, chose a Democratic senator to support that movement. And next, to remove the great danger of corruption at the direct primaries, the people forced the unwilling...
...Executive Committee voted also to establish a Committee on General Complaints composed of the following men: P.D. Smith '11, chairman, R.B. Batchelder '13, R.C. Benchley '12, F.M. Eliot 1G., G.R. Harding '11, S.C. Simons '11, S.B. Steel '11. All complaints by members of the University relating to matters of undergraduate interest and of such nature as to fall within the jurisdiction of this committee should be addressed to P.D. Smith '11, Hollis...
...original fund was used to furnish one of the alcoves in the Boston Public Library, to place one of the St. Gaudens lions on the stairway of that building, and to establish there a fund of $5000 for the purchase of books of a military or patriotic character. The residue has now been turned over to the Corporation with the request that $500 be used to establish a fund to be known as the fund of the twentieth Massachusetts regiment...
...that of Elihu Root at The Hague last summer, work which represented in the highest sense applied morality because it represented the successful performance of that most difficult feat, the efficient putting into practice in any concrete case of the principles which must obtain if we are ultimately to establish justice, achieved through peaceful methods, as a substitute for war in international relations...