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...home of these Law School offices is one of the historic buildings of Cambridge. The land on which it stands was originally owned in 1635 by John Meane. Eventually the ground fell into the ownership of Meane's grandson. Jonathan Hastings, and the house was known as the Meane-Hastings House. Jonathan Hastings called himself "Yankee Jonathan" and is credited with originating the term "Yankee". Hastings' fourth son, John, inherited the homestead and owned it until the Revolution when it changed hands many times...
...beginning. Ireland is still a most distressful country. Arrived in the U. S. for a lecture tour James Stephens, famed Irish poet and author.* He was once an ardent Sinn Feiner but, in the advent of the Free State, he supported the act which conferred upon his native land "dominion status" in the British Commonwealth of Nations. Now, like many other Free State enthusiasts, his ardor has cooled; lie believes that the Irish question has not yet been answered. He therefore observed and suggested: "You know the oldest monarchy of all is Irish. Once there were four kingdoms.† These...
...Author of: The Crock of Gold, Here Arc Ladies, The Charwoman's Daughter, Songs from the Clay, The Demi-Gods, Reincarnation Dcirdrc, In the Land of Youth. †England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the four kingdoms of the British Isles, existed side by side at the time of the Norman Conquest (1066). In 1169, Henry II forced Wales to acknowledge his suzerainty and Kdward I (1272-1307) completed the conquest of that kingdom. When Eleanor, his Queen, gave birth to a son in Carnarvon, a Welsh town, he was presented to the Welsh as a native prince "who could speak...
dangerous for a Republican to attack a Monarchist. It may land him in jail for a long period or cost him a lot of money in fines. A Monarchist, however, may attack a Republican with impunity or, at worst, get a few days' sentence with the option of a small fine. The reason for this state of affairs is that most of the legal luminaries are Monarchists, who held most of the good jobs in the Kaisers' days- a fact which explains the intellectual superiority of the Monarchist over the antiMonarchist Parties. Recently, Republican Judge Kroner, referring...
...same time, Thomas J. Daly, agent for the owner of Beck Hall, made public his plans to tear down the old dormitory and erect in its place a large apartment house and a row of stores. The land, a total area of 31,000 square feet, was first offered to Mr. Wyner for his hotel, in the event that the University should buy the Mt. Auburn Street property...