Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...judges for the debate will be: John Taggard Blodgett of Providence, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island; Robert Archey Woods, head worker of the South End Settlement House, of Boston; and John McLane, Governor of New Hampshire Louis Dembitz Brandeis L'77, a prominent member of the Massachusetts bar, will preside...
...Willard was preaching at Groton, Massachusetts, in 1663, where he succeeded the Rev. John Miller. In 1667 he was called to the Old South Church in Boston, at which he preached many years, and did much toward relieving the suffering of those punished for witchcraft. In 1700 the General Court of Cambridge appointed him Vice-President of the College with all the powers of President, a position which he filled until his death in 1707. He was the author of over fifty-one works on religious subjects...
...situated on a lot fronting on Longwood avenue, Brookline, and bounded by Longwood and Huntington avenues, Wigglesworth, Van Dyke and Villa streets. Messrs. Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, of Boston, are the architects, and Norcross Brothers Co. the contractors. The five buildings are placed on three sides of a longitudinal court. Facing the court from the open end, the Hygiene and Pharmacology Building is the first structure on the right. Opposite it, across the court is the Bacteriology and Pathology Building. The Physiology and Physiological Chemistry Building is the second building on the right and the one opposite is the Anatomy...
...American Universities" last Monday evening at Yale in Woolsey Hall. He said, that although there are diversities among American universities and State institutions, the tendency toward the same constitution is strong. In administration nearly all are patterned after the governing board of Harvard College, originally created by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay in 1642. The tendency of recent legislation is to bring the governing bodies of the institutions to a common plane, in which the amount of political control is being steadily diminished, religious denominations are losing their influence, and wherein the graduates of the several institutions are coming...
...Ramanathan is a native of Ceylon, and received his education in Ceylon and Madras. He became Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon and a member of the Legislative Council there. In 1886 he was called, by reason of his high reputation, to the English bar, and acted three times as Attorney-General of Ceylon, where his distinguished public services gained him a decoration...