Word: civil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that which touches the courts so nearly as the regulation of police removals in New York, Chancellor Howard Crosby, in a recent number of the "Forum," advocates that "the legislature make the board of commissioners' powers final," for under the regulation which allows discharged policemen to appeal to the civil courts, if the commissioners discharge men for what seems to them adequate cause, "the civil courts, with their abounding technicalities, will at once reinstate them...
...bill. He further discussed the question in the three relations of economy, consistency and national honor, and demonstrated that on each ground the President should have signed the bill. He closed with an eloquent and stirring appeal in behalf of the aged and helpless soldiers of the civil...
...foreigners, even to the extent of binding the professors by oath not to teach elsewhere but in Bologna. The extortions and injustice to the students at last brought about voluntary associations based on geographical lines, which ultimately became the University of Bologna. The mediaeval conception of universitas is the civil law idea of corporation, college, corps, i. e., a juristic personality. The thirty-five or forty student-organizations called nations had acquired corporate rights at the end of the 12th century. The University of Bologna as an institution of learning is known as studium (sc., generale) Bononie. There were down...
...when he obtained the nomination in spite of the base charges against him which were exhumed from their sepulchre by the malicious mugwump. (Laughter.) The career of Mr. Blaine in the Senate and as Secretary of State was conspicuous for its straight forwardness and honesty. Mr. Blaine favors civil service reform. When he ran for President in 1884, he was opposed by only four Republicans of national renown, one of whom, Carl Schurz, was hired to speak against him for $200 a night. (Laughter.) We believe that Mr. Blaine should be nominated because he has rendered more conspicuous and signal...
...large audience assembled in Sanders last evening to hear Maj-Gen Crook's lecture on our Western Indians. Rev. Edward Everett Hale introduced the speaker, and said that Gen. Crook had been connected with the U. S. Army for many years. Since the civil war he has been stationed in Idaho and has had charge of the Indians in that district. Gen. Crook then said: In former years, treachery has been extremely prevalent among the Indians. It was their mode of warfare to fall upon an unarmed band of men and massacre the entire party. Originally they did this...