Word: summer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...card enclosed the candidates are asked to say whether, if elected, they will vote for or against the ratification of the proposed income tax amendment to the National Constitution passed by Congress last summer...
Coulson, J. C., Jr., 12 Summer...
During the summer a petition was addressed to His Majesty, King Edward VII, in the name of the President and Fellows of Harvard University, asking him for a license to acquire in mortmain the house in Stratford-on-Avon in which Katherine Rogers, the mother of John Harvard lived. His Majesty was pleased to grant his license to Miss Marie Corelli, the former owner of the property, to convey it to a Board of Trustees. Copies of the documents pertaining to the matter, including the deed of trust, were duly laid before the Corporation, whereupon the following votes were passed...
Among the summer improvements in University buildings, the extensive alteration and redecoration of the interior of Appleton Chapel is the most important. The former screen has been replaced by an entirely new partition, and the pulpit and reading-table have been remodelled...
...candidates for the University football team reported to Head-Coach Haughton at Soldiers Field on Monday, September 13. Individual calls had been sent out during the summer, with a result that a squad of 46 men was on hand, the largest number which has ever reported on the first day. The squad has steadily increased and now numbers, 80. The work for the first week was light, though the whole squad was daily given two sessions of practice. Great stress has been laid on those exercises which demand shiftiness and agility, such as dodging and crawling. The first scrimmage...