Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vacant judgeship in the court of Alabama claims has been given to John Davis, assistant secretary of state and a young Harvard graduate...
...with, and that Attorney-General Tappan will call the attention of these men to the legislation concerning the subject. They also allege that there is quite a general feeling that the property should not be used by men who discriminate against women as medical students and that the General Court at its next session will be asked to make the trustees of Dartmouth college trustees of the state property...
...trial of the Fort Popham shooting case, by which Frank Smith, an '84 man, was shot and killed over two years ago, still drags on in the courts. The judge has reserved his decision and the court has adjourned until...
...Maine Supreme Court decides in regard to college students voting in the college town: The presumption is against a student's right to vote, if he comes to college from out of town. Calling it his residence does not make it so. He may have no right to so regard it. Believing the place to be his home is not enough. There may be no foundation for the belief. Swearing that it is his home must not be regarded as sufficient, if the facts are averse...
...ball. No shouting is allowed, because it scares nervous players (and all our boys are preternaturally nervous), and besides it irritates the throat and predisposes to the lung troubles so rife in this climate. Any player who accidentally strikes another shall be at once arrested, taken to the Municipal Court and fined one hundred dollars for aggravated assault. The "gentlemanliness" of the game shall be preserved, and the wearied players carried home in coaches...