Word: finalities
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...Mexico. Sam Houston helped draft their petition to the Mexican Congress to be separated from Coahuila as a Mexican State. The petition was refused. Independence was declared. Sam Houston was chosen Commander-in-chief of the Texan Army. On "San Jacinto Day" (April 21) Texans still celebrate the final victory of his 743 raw troopers over the 1600 soldiers of General Santa Anna on the banks of the San Jacinto River near the site where Houston City later rose. Sam Houston was the first and only president of the Republic of Texas (1836-1845). He was U. S. Senator from...
...enormous success was in part due to the fact that many painfully unobservant readers attributed it to famed George Eliot, whose works it resembled in certain details. In 1891, before literary England had properly heard of George Bernard Shaw, before Oscar Wilde was a bad name, before ten final absurd years had burned up in a bright sputter for the end of a smoldering century, Thomas Hardy had written Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the most famous of all his fine, austere, tempestuous novels. Four years later he had written Jude the Obscure, the saddest, the last...
Arguing before a capacity audience of students and professors the Sanford Club defeated the Price Powell Club in the final debate of the Ames Competition last night in Langdell Hall...
...case was the final hearing and determination upon the writ of habeas corpus. The keeper of the jail of Amesburgh is ordered to have before the court the body of John B. Nemo, who has been detained and confined in the common jail of the city of Amesburgh by virtue of an order of deportation and commitment pending arrangements for deportation made by Vincent Cummings Esq., Commissioner of Immigration...
...interesting to learn that the case of John B. Nemo, an Italian, the legality of whose projected deportation was argued last night in the final round of the Ames Competition is no theoretical dilemma, propounded by professors, but a case now before the Supreme Court of the United States for review, in the original, Mr. Nemo is a Chinese named Bee who registered for the Draft, and was thereupon arrested under the Chinese Exclusion Act for being unlawfully in this country. His rights were upheld by three Boston lawyers in the lower courts for years of bitter litigation. So many...