Word: biennials
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Judging from the list of entries, the Biennial Handicap Games of the Harvard Athletic Association, to be held next Saturday on Holmes Field, will be the most successful the Association has ever held. The list of entries is unusually large and contains many prominent athletes. Among those who will compete will be about ten Yale men, besides the Yale relay team...
...Should the sessions of the Massachusetts State Legislature be biennial...
Question: "Resolved, That biennial elections should be adopted in Massachusetts...
...Biennial elections would lead to an increase in the power of the Executive incompatible with the theory of democratic government: George Fred Williams and E. B. Hayes, Boston Glove, Feb. 15, 1896; R. L. Bridgman, New England Magazine, VIII. pp. 216-8.- (a) An appeal to the people once in two years is inadequate to insure the enforcement of their will,- (1) as is shown in New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. y. Illinois...
...Biennial elections would subject the state to more agitation for the repeal of laws: R. L. Bridgman, New England Magazine, VIII, p. 216.- (a) Laws would be passed with less consideration of the popular will...