Word: aldermen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Board of Aldermen of Boston has passed, by a vote of six to four, a resolution looking to the establishment of a free university in connection with the public school system. The cost of such advanced grade will be less than $100,000 annually...
...committee of Aldermen has been appointed to consider the question of changing the name of Front and Main Streets, from the Harvard Bridge to Harvard Sq., to University Avenue...
...interesting discussion has been started in Boston by a proposition made in the Board of Aldermen for the establishment by the city of a free university where any young man or young woman might obtain a university education at the public expense. This called out a communication in the Boston Post of last Tuesday, indicating the weakness of the plan and proposing in its place that the city found a large number of scholarships whose holders should be selected from the high schools for study, during three or four years, in any institution they might prefer, at home or abroad...
...Aldermen of Boston have refused to grant a license to the B. A. A. to hold public sparring contests, the meeting at Music Hall, Jan. 26, will be an absolutely private affair, only club members and such others as are invited being admitted...
...Lathrop yesterday received official notice that the Technology games, advertised for next Saturday, would not take place. The Boston aldermen refused to grant a license for sparring and wrestling, although a petition was sent to them as soon as it was learned that there might be any difficulty in procuring a license. Among the Harvard men entered for the games, Fearing was considered a sure winner of the high jump, Shea of putting the shot, and Shead of the fence jumping. A good many men were deterred from entering the Yale games by the prospect of competing at Technology...