Word: time
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work will be conducted under the usual conditions and the customary standard of efficiency will be required, but as the competition will close at the same time as that already in progress for members of the class of 1912, shortly before the final examinations, the usual period of work will be shortened by about three weeks...
...have tried for the CRIMSON before, and have in consequence received time-credit, should report to the managing editor at the above hours today their intention of coming out again...
...Representatives has come to be called the popular branch of Congress. The House has almost the same duties as the Senate; indeed, in their legislative capacities they are almost identical. One difference is that the House must originate all bills for raising revenue. This was supposed, at the time of the framing of the Constitution, to be a very great power, and that the power of the Senate would be neutralized thereby, but it has not returned out to be of great importance. The reason for this is that the Senate can amend bills of this nature, providing only that...
Unfortunately in some cases the House has been considered a sort of kindergarten to the Senate. Many men have been members of the House just to wait for the time when they should become senators, but most of these have been disappointed. Yet a number of the most eminent men in the history of the country say service in the House, among whom we might mention the four Presidents, Madison, Polk, Garfield, and McKinley...
...House were a small body as it used to be, or as the Senate is, there would be time for everybody to be heard and to present all bills that they wished. But there are such a number of bills at this present time, that it has been necessary to make rules giving preference to certain classes of bills; and a Committee on rules is appointed with power to designate the privileged measures. The Speaker of the House is compelled to recognize any man who tries to pass a privileged bill, except on two days of each month, called days...