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William Blaikie '66, well known as a lawyer and an author, an enthusiastic advocate of physical culture, died of apoplexy at his home in New York city on Tuesday. After graduating from the Law School in 1868, he entered the office of Chandler, Shattuck and Thayer in Boston, and in the same year was made Justice of the Peace. During the next year he was chief of the Pardon Bureau in the office of United States Attorney General in Washington, and since that time practiced law in New York, where he was made Commissioner of the United States Court...
...heated argument with the director of the theatre. Monsieur Dancourt. Complaining of the shortness of the play and of the inappropriateness of its title, she refuses to act her part of heroine. The director's remonstrances are in vain. Mile. des Brosses, attendant to Mile. Beauval, announces that the author refuses to allow the play to proceed with the present cast, whereupon Mile. Beauval is as insistent on taking the part of heroine as she had previously been in declining to do so. Monsieur du Bocage, manager for the company, rushes in and begs the players to make rapid preparations...
...Foster is one of the most distinguished authorities on questions of diplomacy now living. He was Secretary of State under President Harrison, minister to Mexico from 1873 to 1880, to Russia from 1880 to 1881 and to Spain from 1883 to 1885. In 1891, as special plenipotentiary of the United States, he negotiated reciprocity treaties with Brazil, Spain, Germany and the West Indies. He represented the United States in the Behring Sea arbitration at Paris in 1893, was a member of the Anglo-Canadian Commission in 1898, and presided at the conference of the National Arbitration Committee held in Washington...
...Gore Hall Library has lately received 600 dissertations from the universities of Leipzig, Munich, Greifslau, Jena, Breslau, and Konigsberg. Among recent gifts are six copies of the latest volume of "The History of the United States," by the author, Mr. J. F. Rhodes, of Boston, and 59 volumes of recent American poetry, by Mr. Ferris Greenslet, of Cambridge. Mr. J. H. Hyde '98, of New York, has given to the Gore Hall Library, as well as to the libraries of the French Department and of the Union, sets of the complete works of Professor Funk-Brentano, who is to lecture...
...Foster is an authority on questions of diplomacy. He was minister to Mexico from 1873 to 1880 and minister to Russia from 1880 to 1881. He established a law practice in international cases in Washington, representing foreign legations before commissions and arbitration boards. From 1883 to 1885 he was minister to Spain. In 1891 he was special plenipotentiary to negotiate reciprocity treaties with Brazil, Spain, Germany, and the British West Indies. In the year 1892 to 1893 he was Secretary of State under President Harrison. He acted as the United States agent in the Behring Sea Arbitration at Paris...