Word: courts
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...Providence at 12.56 noon, and arriving in New London at 2.25 P. M. in ample time for the 4.30 o'clock contest. Special excursion tickets for this train at $3.50 from Boston and $2.25 from Providence may be purchased in advance at City Ticket Office, corner of Washington and Court streets, Boston; of Leavitt & Peirce agents, Harvard square, Cambridge; at Back Bay Station; at South Station, Boston; and at Union Station, Providence. No tickets for the special train will be sold on the day of the excursion if the limit is reached before that time...
...Providence at 12.56 noon, and arriving in New London at 2.25 P. M. in ample time for the 4.30 o'clock contest. Special excursion tickets for this train at $3.50 from Boston and $2.25 from Providence may be purchased in advance at City ticket Office, corner of Washington and Court streets, Boston; of Leavitt & Pierce, agents, Harvard square, Cambridge; at Back Bay Station; at South Station, Boston; and at Union Station, Providence. No tickets for the special train will be sold on the day of the excursion if the limit is reached before that time...
...there was existed in church schools only, in which Latin was the official languages. We all know what it meant, some centuries ago, to have even the slightest education. If a man could translate a little Latin into his mother tongue, he could not be tried by a civil court for any crime. He could claim "benefit of clergy" and be tried in an ecclesiastical court--and the ecclesiastical court was very likely to pardon, or to inflict comparatively mild punishment...
Harvard College, in the course of its long history, has suffered a good deal from fires in its buildings. Thus, Harvard Hall was completely destroyed, with all of John Harvard's library except one book, in 1764, when the Great and General Court, driven out of Boston by an epidemic of smallpox, occupied Harvard Hall for its sessions in the middle of winter. The weather was cold, the open wood fires were piled high, and the fire broke out in the night. This disaster illustrates the rule that it is inexpedient to leave buildings whose contents are precious without human...
...buildings now being built along the Charles. Although this has caused some delay in the plans, there are at present nearly three hundred men employed on the work. The principal place of activity is in the group of buildings forming the three sides of the eastern, minor court. These are the structures that are to be devoted to general studies and biology and public health. The east court foundations are about three hundred feet square and altogether there have been driven about five thousand piles, about one-fourth of the whole number required. No less than fifteen different sources...