Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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2. In all cases in which the price has been determined by agreement between the depositor and the agent of the Society, or by the agent alone, no commission will be charged if the Society exercises its privilege of return at the end of six months.
A commission was appointed in Massachusetts in 1876, of which Charles Francis Adams was the leading spirit.
...experience of all other countries has shown. Even Germany, where there is so much government control over railroads, has found it impossible to prohibit pools and equalize rates at the same time. Whereas Germany employs a force of 8000 men to manage railroad matters, our bill intends that five commissioners should do all the work over a larger area. They may take such aids as a yearly appropriation of $100,000 will provide...
The constitution of any university depends entirely on the proportionate use of two factors: the powers in the hands of the faculties as such, and the powers entrusted to a rector, or as we say, president. The faculty system is from Paris, that of the rector from Bologna. The constitution...
Harvard is surely the last place where one would expect to find a premium set on laziness and indolence. We all know how the very atmosphere of Cambridge seems to stir the soul and to urge the mind to work and learn. Yet, here in these self-same "classic shades...