Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...supreme court of New York has sustained Judge Truax in his decision setting aside the clause of the Fayerweather will in which $3,000,000 is left to various colleges. By this decision Harvard loses $100,000; Yale, $150,000; and Brown, Wesleyan and Trinity, $50,000 each. The will as it now stands will benefit twenty colleges. The six New England institutions to receive bequests are: Yale, $450,000; and Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan and Bowdoin, $250,000 each...
Arthur Warren and Leon Williams. "Love's Court," Eliztbeth C. Cardozo. "Actresses Who Have Become Peeresses," A. C. Wheeler...
...varsity captains,- the presidents of the boat club and athletic club and the captains of the cricket club and of the Rugby and Association football teams. They usually award a "full blue" to the members of the five teams they represent; and in addition to the chief representative in court tennis and rackets. On the athletic team, however, the "second strings" get only a "half blue." This differs from a "full blue" in that the sweater has no blue trimming on the neck and sleeves and is without the emblem of the club on the breast, while the blazer...
...graduate of the Harvard Law School, class of '58, was unanimously elected dean of the law faculty of the West Virginia University. Judge Johnson has practiced his profession with distinguished success in West Virginia, his native State, and for twelve years was a member of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, presiding as president of that body for about eight years...
...circular letters to the alumni, detailing the fire losses, and pointing out the need of the construction of separate fireproof buildings to replace the library, the rotunda and its wings, and the law school. Letters of sympathy have been received from President Cleveland, Justice Brown of the Supreme Court, and Bishop Keane of the Catholic University...