Word: court
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...scene of "Les Plaideurs" is laid in Normandy in the early part of the seventeenth century. The play holds up to ridicule people who take petty cases to court, as well as the judges who try the cases. The action of the play turns about the old Judge Dandin, who has become weak minded through a too close application to his profession. His son, Leandre, takes care of him, and to keep him from going to court arranges a trial at home, at which the house dog, who has stolen a capon, serves as culprit...
...Randolph Land Trust has started work on an extension to the Plympton street wing of Randolph Hall. The extension will contain sixteen single, double and triple suites, and a large handball court in the basement. This addition to Randolph will be ready for occupancy by next fall. It is also planned to have a similar addition made to the Linden street wing at some later period...
Work will be begun in January on an important addition to Westmorly Court that will more than double its size and capacity. Westmorly as it now stands is in the shape of a hollow half square, the east and west wings being only about one-half the length of the south side. The length of these two wings will be doubled and the fourth side of the square built. This fourth side, or north wing, will extend through to Bow street and will take up the ground on which Young's restaurant Low stands. The addition, which will contain thirty...
...arrangement of the building in the form of a hollow square leaves a court about fifty feet square, all of which will be used for a large swimming pool, protected from above by a glass roof. A large circular hall finished in stone will extend up to the top floor and will have corridors leading from it in every direction so that access may be obtained from it to every part of the building. Work will continue on these improvements during the spring and summer and it is expected that the rooms will be ready for occupancy by next September...
Harvard College was founded in 1636. The gift of four hundred pounds, decreed by the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was augmented by more than double that amount through the will of John Harvard, a non-conforming clergyman of England, who died the following year. In consequence of this large bequest, the College was immediately opened at Cambridge (then Newton), and the name of Harvard bestowed upon...