Word: courting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Prof. S. E. Baldwin of New Haven has been recently elected a judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court...
Oberlin has the finest tennis court of any college. There are twenty-nine courts, occupying more than four acres...
Vice-President-elect Stevenson is a graduate of Centre College of Kentucky. This college has graduated two vice presidents, fourteen U. S. representatives, six U. S., senators, six governors of slates, and one justice of the Supreme Court in the past fifty years...
...Smith, Cornell '92, a student in the Law School, received a judgement from the Supreme Court, which nets him half a million dollars...
Before such audiences John Dryden made his fame or, perhaps better won his popularity. His plays at first very poor, gradually grew better until finally he captured the London court, and henceforth his position was secure. Dryden was hardly a man of lofty ideals, and he much preferred the popularity of the moment and its substantial rewards than any amount of posthumous glory...