Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will of the late Daniel A. Buckley of Cambridge, which was filed at the Middlesex Probate Court this week, the testator leaves his entire property in trust, the proceeds to be devoted to the maintenance of deserving students at Harvard. The students benefited must be graduates of the Cambridge public schools...
...money is to be left in trust with the city officials of Cambridge. If they are unwilling to accept the offer, it will be made to the President and Fellows of Harvard. In case they too refuse to serve, the trust is to be administered by the Probate Court...
...Marshall who established in unquestioned integrity the position of the judiciary as co-ordinate with and equal to the legislative branches of the government, and made the Supreme Court recognized as the power qualified to sanction or veto legislative acts. He laid down for all time the fundamental considerations which fix and govern the relative functions of the nation and the States, he defined the powers of the legislatures, and made clear the conception and theory of the American doctrine of constitutional law. He was not overweening in his assumption of the power of the court, but, on the other...
...memorial meeting, to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the appointment of John Marshall as first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme court, will be held in Sanders Theatre at 4 o'clock on February 4. Acting-president Walcott will preside, and Professor J. B. Thayer, of the Law School, will deliver an address on John Marshall's character and work, his position as a man and as a jurist. Admission to sanders Theatre will be by ticket...
...revived in America as late as 1848. The main plot of the play is as follows: Two brothers, Charles and Eustace, are exactly the opposite in character: Charles cares for nothing but books and is a great scholar; while Eustace despises learning and spends most of his time at court. A marriage has been arranged by Brisac, the father of the two young men, and Servis, the father of Angelina. One of the brothers is to be chosen as the girl's suitor, and, as Charles cares for nothing but books, the choice naturally falls on Eustace. To satisfy...