Word: courted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...destroyed last year. Although Mercer Hall is rather small, it is much better than the old cage in the gymnasium, and as it is out of the question to rebuild the cage this winter, Mercer Hall will have to suffice. The hall has been turned into an excellent handball court, and is plenty large enough to permit battery practice. The candidates will continue to practice indoors daily until the weather will permit out-door playing, and they will in all probability be under the immediate supervision of Arthur Irwin of the Philadelphias...
...great ponds"; the other treating of the liability of an employer for injuries done an employee through the carelessness of other employees. The first article is entitled "The Watuppa Paid Cases" and is contributed conjointly by Samuel D. Warren, jr., and Louis D. Brandeis. The decision of the Massachusetts court in the controversy between the town of Fall River and a number of manufacturers whose mills lie upon the Quequechan river, as to the right of the former to use the water of the Watuppa ponds, the source of the Quequechan, is reviewed and criticized. The article is notable...
...constitution of the United States not only permits it but demands it.- Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 8; decision of Supreme Court in Pen. Tel. Co. v. W. U. Co., 6 Otto...
Cornell University has filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court from the recent decision of the Court of Appeals forfeiting the McGraw bequest of $1, 500, 000. The case will be brought in October, 1889. The ground of the appeal is stated to be that the State of New York holds in trust the proceeds upon which the university was founded, and which were given by the nation to the state. If this is the case, the university is not absolute owner of the property, but merely a beneficiary, and the charter limit of $3, 000, 000 will...
VIII. The U. S. Supreme Court has decided that the right of suffrage is not necessarily one of the privileges of a citizen.- Forum...