Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Glee Club, through their attorneys, Brown and Davis, have brought suit in the Louisville Common Pleas Court against the Ohio and Mississipp Railroad Company for $2,000. This suit does not include claims for personal damages...
...faculty of Yale College have given out as topics to be written upon by the students competing for the Townsend prize the following: "Regulations of Inter-State Commerce," "Strikes," "Recent Decision of the Supreme Court on the Civil-Rights Bill" and "Government Control of the Telegraph." Congress and the country at large will await the settlement of these important questions with breathless interest. [Lowell Citizen...
...determined to establish a school for boys, to train them for the college. At once friends of the college gave $600,000 for the school, and it is now being established a few miles from Princeton. I confess when I heard of the decision of the Louisiana Supreme Court that the property I had already given would be taxed, it made me sick. I was sick for two weeks. I have not yet gotten over it. I am prepared to add largely to my donations, and some of my friends, whose fathers made their fortunes in Louisiana, have promised...
...also said "that the style was entirely wrong. Against men of the Renshaw 'calibre,' they played far too near the net, and when the Englishmen really set themselves to play (that is in the second match, not the first), they did what they pleased in the long stretch of court, left absolutely undefended. It is all well enough to oppose the net game, properly so called, to players who are content with 'lobbing,' or an occasional mild 'liner,' but to play this game opposite men who send their returns in like the proverbial lightening, is simple suicide." An English correspondent...
James Russell Lowell, Minister to the Court of St. James, has voluntarily resigned the position of Lord Rector of St. Andrews' University. Mr. Lowell has taken this step in the hopes of stopping all further talk as to his eligibility and of freeing the government from any trouble on the subject...