Word: benches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fourth annual bench show of the New England Kennel Club will be held in Mechanics' Hall, Boston, on April 3, 4, 5 and 6. The cash prizes offered amount to $3,500 and there are challenge cups to be given in the mastiff class...
...Massachusetts Kennel Club's bench show April 6, 7, 8, Mr. Hallowell, '88, had the satisfaction of seeing his valuable liver and white spaniel "Toby" take a gold medal in his class...
...Benjamin R. Curtis, who succeeds the late Judge Churchill on the municipal bench of Boston, graduated from Harvard as a member of the class...
...worth the winning or not) are seldom obtained by the clever. A youth of this stamp takes the chief seat at a club or a dinner party, and sometimes obtains a butterfly reputation in literature, but he does not shine at the bar, he will never sit upon the bench, or arrive at eminence among the faculty, These positions are won by square jawed men, who can neither make nor read vers de societe, but who have the tenacity of a bull-terrier and the ambition of Lucifer. They are certainly offensive in their way - unpleasantly successful and aggressive...
Judge William Crowninshield Endicott, secretary of war, graduated from Harvard in 1847, studied at the Harvard law school, and was admitted to the bar about 1850. He remained on the bench until 1882, when he resigned on account of ill health, He is a member of the board of overseers of Harvard college...