Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will of the late Gordon McKay, which was filed for probate last November, was allowed without contest on Monday by Judge Robert Grant '73 in the Suffolk Probate Court. By the terms of the will, eighty per cent of the net annual income of the estate, which has a value of about $890,000, is to be set aside and invested by the trustees, after certain annuities amounting to $48,000 have been paid. When this income, with its accretions, amounts to $1,000,000, it is to be paid to the University to form the Gordon McKay endowment...
Baron Kaneko came to this country in 1871, and after reading law with Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, Justice of the United States Supreme Court, graduated from the Law School in 1878. Upon returning to Japan he entered the government service as secretary of the Senate, and was soon transferred to the Imperial Cabinet, where he was appointed one of the framers of the Japanese constitution. After the promulgation of the constitution he was sent by the Emperor to investigate the parliamentary systems of Europe. In the first cabinet organized by Marquis Ito Baron Kaneko held the portfolio of commerce...
...time limit in 1894. He was appointed counsel for the Boston Terminal Company, and vice-president of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company in 1896. In 1902 he was prominently mentioned as the successor of the late Justice Horace Gray as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court...
...Educational Building, a structure devoted to showing the progress and achievements of the educational methods of Europe and America, and the first of its kind to be included in an exposition. The building is divided into four quarters by broad corridors, flanked by columns, leading to an inner court. Three of these divisions will be occupied by the exhibits of England. France and Germany, and the fourth by those of America. The University has been allotted the central position in this last division, and will occupy a space approximately sixty feet long by thirty feet wide, bordering on the inner...
...Boston performance of the Elizabethan comedy, "The Alchemist," will be given in Potter Hall, Huntington avenue, this evening at 8 o'clock. Tickets may be obtained at Herrick's, or from H. H. Bennett, 136 Westmorly Court, until 6 P. M. After that time they will be on sale at the box-office...