Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hope of many that when the next clerical vacancy is the corporation occurs, the place may be filled by one who is not a Congregationalist minister, or by a minister of that faith who resides out of the state, This would give an opportunity of bringing before the supreme court of the state a friendly suit to determine whether the corporation had exceeded its powers, and, if the case were heard before the full bench, it is possible that a change might be reached in the makeup of the corporation which would make it more thoroughly representative of the large...
...courts will not be reserved more than fifteen minutes past the hour for which they have been engaged. Every engagement of a reserve court is for two hours...
President Seelye, of Amherst, refused to testify in the Andover controversy, and the supreme court has ordered him to appear and show cause for his refusal...
...following rule has been posted in the gymnasium at Exeter in the handball court: "No student shall play longer than twenty minutes at one time, if others are waiting to use the court...
...last year. About six of the nine can be named with considerable degree of certainty, but the other places will be warmly contested. The candidates are now practicing in two squads, one of which has the gymnasium as its base of operations, the other occupying Mercer Hall, where a court for handball practice has been fitted...