Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Judge Stanley Matthews of the United States Supreme Court will deliver the address at the commencement of the Yale Law School...
...competition was a plan of "A Casino for Baths," to be situated upon the new Charles River embankment. The casino, by the stipulation, was to be amply provided with plain and medicinal baths, and in addition to these were to be a gymnasium, a bowling alley, a tennis court, a reading room, a billiard room and cafe. On the bank of the river there was the be a boat house, and two or three parilions. The grounds were to be laid out in an attractive a way as possible...
...moral and political conditions of the time. Besides the internal evidence of the Bible, much information is given us by the recent Assyrian and Babylonian discoveries. Isaiah lived in that period of the Assyrian invasion of Palestine, and was a contemporary of four Assyrian kings. He lived at the court of Jerusalem during most of his life, filling the positions of court preacher, physician and counsellor. Isaiah was a determined opponent of all foreign alliances, and even when Sennacherib was besieging Jerusalem was, unwilling to call upon Egypt for assistance. He advised the people to put their trust in "Javeh...
...lecture, last night, in Jefferson Physical Laboratory, on "The Training of the College and the Law School as a preparation for the profession of the Law," Mr. Abbott said that the common idea that the main business of the lawyer consisted in trying cases in court was entirely erroneous. The great characteristic of our age is the tendency to combination, resulting in our railroads and other corporations. As these corporate bodies have increased in size and importance, their relations with the state and with individuals have grown more and more complex, until now men of great legal knowledge must...
...original clause in the will, which is dated December 18, 1882, is as follows: "In case the inventory of my estate, as returned to the Probate Court having jurisdiction of my will, shall amount to $250,000, I give to the president and fellows of Harvard College the sum of $25,000, the same to be kept as a separate fund, and the income thereof to be used in such manner as in the judgment of the president and fellows will be most advantageous for the purposes of the college in any of its departments, and should such inventory amount...