Word: courting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been decided to hold Harvard admission examinations in the rooms of the Buffalo High School, cornor of Court and Franklin Streets, Buffalo, New York...
...Every engagement of a reserved court is for two hours...
...Monday in the Surrogate's Court the contest of the will of the late Daniel B. Fayerweather was declared at an end, though the terms of the settlement have not been made public. It is impossible to predict definitely how much Harvard will receive. Conservative estimates place the value of the estimates place the value of the entire estate at between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000. On this basis the residue will amount to about $3,000,000. Out of this, after the provisions of the will in regard to educational institutions and hospitals are carried out, there...
...Century bill-of-fare for March is varied enough to suit the most captious magazine reader. Unusually entertaining is the third installment of the famous Talleyrand Memoirs, containing, as it does, comments on the luxury and vice of Napoleon's court, which derive a peculiar flavor, coming, as they do, from the pen of Talley-rand...
...looks now as if Harvard were, after all, going to get something out of the Fayerweather will case. At the court on Wednesday the three executors drew up a statement in which they relinquished all their claims as residuary legatees. As this claim amounted to somewhere between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000, their action is of considerable importance to those to whom the money will now go. The executors state that they give the property in trust to various colleges mentioned in Mr. Fayerweather's will. Harvard was not mentioned in the will, but in this apportionment...