Word: favors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Justice Fry of London yesterday gave judgment in the case of the Union Telephone Company vs. Walker, an action to restrain the defendant from infringing on the patent for Edison's transmitter and Bell's receiver. The former point was decided against, and the latter in favor of, the plaintiff...
...very able productions, well worth the hearing for the careful study which they showed and for the candor and liberality of their views. Moreover we think it a very different thing to read before a set of critical judges and before an audience who perhaps are prepossessed in favor of the speaker. Many whom the cold eyes of the judges would disconcert would be roused to their best efforts by an audience of fellow students. Would not this method be more beneficial than the present...
...danger of the adoption of so radical a scheme as that of co-education for many years yet is very remote indeed. But the vote on the recent proposition is very significant. That the more liberal and progressive portion of the board of overseers should have looked with any favor on the plan is certainly indicative of an imminent discussion in the board, before many years, over some proposition for the admission of women to the college itself. The measures employed to recommend such an idea by its advocates have been very insidious and deceiving. The innocent annex may turn...
...side of the water is something that has continued for years, I presume, and as far as I can judge, the brick houses should be awarded the prize. The only hope I have is that under the present regime the struggle between architecture and education will be decided in favor of the latter, owing to the decay of the former...
CONGRESS.The House yesterday resumed consideration of the Geneva award bill, establishing a commission to examine claims and enter judgments. A bill was reported appropriating $10,000,000 annually as a national educational fund. The election committee has decided to report in favor of Lowe, the Greenbacker, in the Lowe. Wheeler Alabama contest. In the Senate the Court of Appeals bill was further discussed. It was charged that President Arthur has promised to appoint a number of Democrats to judgeships in the event of the bill's passage. The Indian appropriation bill was passed. Worthington's case will be decided tomorrow...