Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prize of a $500 cup has been offered by the New York Racquet Court Club as a prize for an amateur contest in billiards...
...first four of the Superior Court of the Pow Wow for 1887-8 are Anderson, '87, Yale; Furber, '87, Holland, '85 and Rich...
...after dyner he deperted out of the hall, and went up into a galarye of twenty-four stayres of heyght. It being exceedingly cold the Earl complained that the fire was not large enough, when a person named Ervalton of Spayne, went down stayers, and beneth in the court he saw a great many of asses laden with woode to serve the house, that he went and tooke one of the greatest asses with al the woode, and layde him on hys back, and went up al the stayrs into the galary, and dyd caste downe the asse with...
...understand it, the position taken is, substantially, college trials must be conducted with the same limitations upon the authorities as are laid upon court officials; positive evidence such as would hold good in law, as against testimony that would perhaps hold good in enforcing parental discipline, or in the regulation of the methods of employing and discharging employees of a store, factory or corporation, must be obtained before an accused student may be a judged guilty...
...secure testimony in college against offenders under the present prevalent sentiment, and that opprobrium is heaped upon one who does testify, however right he and his friends may consider his case to be, has been recently illustrated by the very events which indirectly led to the complication of a court trial, and the student whose testimony figured somewhat in the late trial was exempt from criticism by those who are usually disposed to shield wrong doing at all hazards, only because of his uniformly courteous bearing towards his fellow students, the high respect which his general course in college...