Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President made a brief announcement that following the recommendation of the Attorney-General he would issue no pardon to Oilman Harry F. Sinclair, in jail for contempt of Senate (refusing to answer questions) and of court (jury shadowing), or to Henry Mason Day, Mr. Sinclair's henchman. Day has a passport to go to Europe next month when he will be released in the regular course of events. Sinclair must wait till November, in spite of his plea that his weight has fallen from 200 Ibs. to 185 Ibs., that stockholders are suffering from his absence...
...Treasure Room in the Memorial Library has once more been reopened to those interested in rarities historical and literary. Among the many valuable documents on display, there may be found the Charter granted to Harvard College by the General Court of the Colony and signed by Governor Thomas Dudley on May 30, 1650. The only remaining volume from the library of John Harvard, together with three Bibles of Henry Dunster's, first President of the College, one of which contains the records of the Dunster family, completes this interesting collection of Harvardiana...
Last night at the court room of Lang-dell Hall, an opening reception was held for first year Law Students under the auspices of the Law School Committee of Phillips Brooks House. An imposing group of speakers included President Lowell, Dean Roscoe Pound, Professor E. M. Morgan '02, professor of Law, Professor A. W. Scott, Story Professor of Law, and H. F. Hart, Jr. 3L, president of the Law Review...
...ceremonies were conducted in the court room of the new Langdell Hall. President Lowell opened the exercises with a brief welcome, and after pointing out the need for trained lawyers in our present day civilization, called on Roscoe Pound Dean of the Law School and a member of President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission...
Important as are the benefits which the school will receive from the model court room, the enlarged library with its immense reading room, and from the relief which new offices and class rooms will give to overcrowding, important as these material gains undoubtedly are, they seem somewhat overshadowed in the realization that is suggested this morning of the increasingly strong influence of the Law School on national life...