Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present German constitution received its inception. After the Austrian war the Reichstag was established. This body is elected by the people and represents them, while the Bundesrath represents the governments of the different states. The Reichstag is a single chamber, and its main function is to discuss and sanction. The Bundesrath can veto any legislation of the Reichstag, and its vetoes are incontestable. In this is found the first obstacle to constitutional government in Germany. Under the present government a responsible ministry is an impossibility, which forms another obstacle. A third is found in the relation of Prussia...
...spite of the foolishness of these resolutions there are two things in connection with them which please us immensely. First, that as they stand now, they can never get the sanction of the faculty, without which they remain inoperative, and secondly, that the overseers who voted against the resolution-headed by President Eliot and Phillips Brooks-are the liberal, progressive men of the university, under whose direction the real reforms in college work have been carried through...
...Griffing, '89, then spoke for the negative. Woman comes out of her natural sphere when she takes part in political affairs. Her place is at home -a position given her by divine sanction-and when she assumes man's work she acts in opposition to nature...
...bills to the men in training, and though in some cases men have paid as formerly, the last year it has been common to leave these bills unpaid. It is the duty of the committee to make this statement. If public segment and the governments of the organizations sanction the present custom, it undoubtedly will soon become settled...
...understand that during the past week, at the inspiration of the Andover Club at Yale, steps were taken towards the formation of a Yale Club in this school. We were much astonished that any such action should be taken by the students and that it should receive the sanction of any portion of the faculty, especially when it is known that a few administrations since the converting of the school into a feeder for one college and the giving to it a sectarian character, alienated the support of the Phillips family, which support has never since been recovered...