Word: barred
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only son of John and Susanna Wright, and was born at Groton, Mass., March 18, 1832. After graduating from college he studied in the Harvard Law School from 1855 to 1856, and subsequently entered the law office of Hon. Nathan Crosby, of Lowell. He was admitted to the Middlesex bar in September, 1856, though he never practiced. Later he made his home in Chicago, and there entered business life as a banker...
John Patrick Brown of the class of '61, a member of the Suffolk bar, died suddenly Wednesday. Mr. Brown was a man of fine literary taste and an accomplished linguist. He has left a number of manuscript translations from the French and Spanish which will soon be published...
...moal questions we must consult not only our reason but our hearts. In such cases it would be absurd to bar out our wills. The simple question of the existence of moral truth cannot be answered by pure intellect. Moral skepticism can no more be refuted by logic than can intellectual skepticism...
...College he entered the Graduate School, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1876. He then determined to devote himself to the study of law, and enrolled himself among the members of the Law School. In 1879 he graduated with the degree of LL.B. and entered the Massachusetts Bar, of which he soon became a very prominent member. It is interesting to notice that Judge Grant was connected with Harvard as a student in some department during the whole decade about which he is to talk. He is now a member of the Board of Overseers...
...tone and temper. Prose has long since crowded verse out of the drama and all the resources of scenery, stage carpentry, costumes, and the actor's art have been used to realize-if one may so speak-even the romantic drama. Even these devices, however, do not remove the bar that separates Shakespeare and the average man of today. The fact that his plays are written in verse, that declamation is often suffered to interrupt action, and that Shakespeare not infrequently uses what seems to many persons a single and arbitrary psychology-vide for example the marriage of Celia...