Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that inhabitancy in Maine would not render him ineligible; but the Board of Overseers, acting in accordance with the advice of Messrs. E. R. Hoar, W. G. Russell, and R. H. Dana, Jr., who had been chosen to examine the legal points at issue, decided that removal from the Commonwealth creates a vacancy in the Board. This decision was based on the opinion that the act of the Legislature, in 1865, by which the government of the College was transferred from the representatives of the Commonwealth to those of the alumni, merely provides a "mode of filling places and vacancies...
...coming out from Boston. When you spend the night with your uncle on Commonwealth Avenue, do not come out before ten. Grinder takes the half-past-eight car every morning; he lives at his home in East Chelsea, and has a nine-o'clock recitation - which he never cuts - every day in the week, as he takes twenty-eight hours of electives this year. An exception may be made of Monday morning, when Mr Beck, of Beacon Street, refreshed by his devotions at Trinity, takes the nine-o'clock car, to the great delight of his parents, - and then plays...
...orations reproduced in three days' time; class-day and graduation printing in the latest style of the art-preservative. We cordially extend an invitation to the survivors of the Lampoon to call and examine the largest printing establishment in New England. Rand, Avery, & Co., Printers by contract to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and by courtesy to their Royal Nibs - the undergraduates of Harvard University. - Courier - Journal...
HARVARD COLLEGE LOTTERY."The subscribers, appointed managers of the above lottery, pursuant to an act of the General Court of this Commonwealth, having given bonds for the faithful discharge of that trust, respectfully present the public with the following scale of prizes...
...above scheme the just expectations of the public and the interest of the University have been consulted. It is worthy the attention of adventurers that the highest prize is nearly double in value to any that has been drawn in this Commonwealth for many years past. The managers solicit the patronage of the public in general, and of the friends of literature and the University in particular; and, considering the object of the lottery, anticipate their liberal attendance...