Word: courting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Paul Dudley, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court left a bequest in 1750 of Pound23 to be used in giving a series of lectures on religious subjects. The lectures were given each year from 1753-1857. They were then discontinued till four years...
JERRY HEFFERAN,10 Foster's Court, Cambridge, Mass...
...Leland Stanford Universities were trying to purchase it. The Moak collection contains about 13,000 volumes and its original cost was something over $100,000. Mr. Moak spent thirty years in gathering it and took great pains in its collection. It has full federal reports; reports of every court of New York state, reports of every court of last resort in the various states, comparatively complete Australian and New Zealand reports, full Canadian reports and complete British reports from the time of the year books to the present day. In addition there is a large collection of statutes...
...lost and the cosmopolitan culture her central position won for her. When with the rise of the great commercial powers, a desire for broader culture was felt, Italian poets fashioned their works entirely from the models of France and Provence. Their poetry, as seen in the productions of the Court of Frederick II., was utterly devoid of originality. It was an artificial imitation of accepted models, without thought or feeling, merely art for art's sake...
...will be interesting to those who do not know the history of these Dudleian lectures to state briefly the conditions upon which they were founded. In 1750 Paul Dudley, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court made a bequest of $23 to be used in giving a series of four lectures on religious subjects, one lecture to be given each year. Justice Dudley was a man much interested in matters of theology and his desire in founding this course of lectures was to afford a means for broad and comprehensive treatment of what seemed to him important theological questions...