Word: aids
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...degree of LL.D. from Western Reserve University. He was ordained a minister in 1860, and has held pastorates at Terre Haute, Indiana, New England Church, New York, and Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. For three years after the Civil War he was secretary of the American Union Commission for the aid of freemen, and in 1869 he resigned his pastorate at New York to devote himself to literature. He edited the "Literary Record," of Harper's Magazine, and was associate editor of the "Christian Union" with Henry Ward Beecher. Dr. Abbott is at present editor of the "Outlook...
...instrument is controlled altogether from the observing room, where there are several levers for use in setting the telescope in motion. The following of the object under observation has been accomplished with the aid of an astronomical driving clock, and electricity is to be used for both sets of motions. Before the recorder are two long slits through each of which can be seen a white ribbon impressed with divisions and figures corresponding with degrees and minutes of the celestial are. These ribbons move up and down with the telescope, serving to guide the manipulation of the lever, so that...
...most important causes is that "the practices of corporations that need public franchises have been often corrupt." And finally, "legislative remedies for these evils have been hindered by a false theory that a city ought to be an independent entity managing all its own affairs, and accepting neither aid nor control from the state...
Before an audience of about a hundred Law School men, Mr. Merrill E. Gates, head counsel of the New York Legal Aid Society, delivered an interesting address in Langdell Hall last night on the work of the society, which provides legal aid to the poor gratuitously, or at a charge of a few cents...
...Merrill E. Gates, Jr., of New York, counsel for the Legal Aid Society, will give an address on the work of the society in Langdell Centre Hall tonight at 8 o'clock. This is one of the several talks arranged for Law School students to give them a view of the work in which they are to be engaged after they leave college. It will be open only to Law School students...