Word: court
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cambridge, Mass. May 8, 1917. Captain James A. Shannon, 11th Cavalry, is appointed summary court offices. C. CORDIER. Captain, U. S. Army, Commandant...
Those men who end their study of law now may not be so wise in precedent as those who continue the logical courses of their careers. But they will be partisans of a higher law, pleading before a court of last appeals for the cause of liberty. They will be less skilled jurists. They will be no less good lawyers...
Today is Harvard Day at Fenway Court, the annual date set aside by Mrs. John L. Gardner for the benefit of members of the University. Mrs. Gardner's collection will be open only to students of the University from 12 to 3 o'clock in the afternoon...
...case of the Armitz Brown in 1814 the Supreme Court handed down the opinion that the sovereignity of the United States extended to the confiscation of enemy property, and stated that "a declaration of war does not in itself enact a confiscation of the property of the enemy--but that power of confiscating enemy property is in the legislature." Professor Hart points out that in any event the war powers of the President would allow him to take over the ships and leave the question of their confiscation to be settled later...
...work of John LaFarge, Whistler's "Sunday at Domberg" and the new Sargent painting entitled "Lake O'Hara," Mr. Bettens has donated to the Fogg Museum an unfinished picture by J. Singleton Copley, 1737-1815, R.A. It is entitled "Monmouth Before James II," and portrays the conspirator at the court of the king refusing to reveal the name of his accomplices...