Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Dunbar graduated from Harvard in 1851, and, as his health did not permit of his practicing law, he bought a farm at Lexington, where he lived several years. He afterwards studied law and practiced in Boston, where his office was on Court street. He purchased an interest in the Boston Daily Advertiser and in 1862 became editor-in-chief of that paper when Charles Hale '50, the former editor, went to Egypt as United States consul. During the war the Advertiser was conservative and loyal to the Union cause, though it frequently criticised the administration. In 1870 Professor Dunbar...
...exceptions, which were issued in Samoa during the recent complications there. Mr. Morgan served as secretary to the American Commission which was sent to Samoa a year ago, and the documents collected by him comprise the proclamations of the English, American and German consuls, notices issued by the Supreme Court and other decrees. Last December he gave the Library copies of several of the proclamations of the American Commission, and his present gift thus completes the series of documents...
...contest between Harvard College and the city of Cambridge on taxing College property has not by any means, ended with the decision of the supreme court, by which the College property was declared exempt. The board of assessors and others in the city government, who hold the view that some of the property of the College ought to be taxed, are preparing a serious movement to bring about what they consider a more equitable basis of taxation...
...Court says further in regard to the houses of the professors: "We think it was competent for the judge of the Superior Court, who heard the case, to find the fact that the principal or dominant consideration in regard to the occupation of the houses by the several professors had reference to the performance of their duties in the offices which they held as professors and otherwise, rather than to the private benefit which they would receive in the way of homes for themselves and their families, and he was justified in finding that the occupancy was for the purpose...
...summing up, the Court says: "The distinction lies, it seems to us, between an occupancy which is for the private benefit and convenience of the officer and which is so regarded by the parties as in the ordinary case of landlord and tenant, and an occupancy where, although necessarily to some extent the relation of landlord and tenant enters into it, the dominant or principal matter of consideration is the effect of the occupancy in promoting the objects of the institution and upon the efficiency and influence of the officers as such and upon those whom the institution designs...