Word: landed
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...important case is now pending between the Boston Park commissioners and the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The trouble arose from an attempt by the Commissioners to seize a tract of land belonging to the Bussey Institution farm for use as a public playground. The attorney for Harvard at once filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to stop the proceeding; but on April 25 Judge Barker, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, declined to issue the writ and dismissed the petition...
...friendly adjustment may be made before that time by mutual agreement of the parties involved, though it is doubtful whether the commissioners will withdraw from their present position. If the case is finally determined in favor of the commissioners they will of course have to pay for the land at its full valuation of $89,000; but this result will be far from satisfactory to the College as there are strong reasons for wishing to retain the property. The case is one of four or five in which the College is interested, and nearly all of them are disputes...
...recent performances of Foote and Richardson of Harvard indicate that they will finish first and second respectively in the two-mile run. Teel or Waldron of Yale may land third place from Blakemore of Harvard. Were it not for complications with the college authorities, which have rendered Strong and Chittenden unavailable, Yale's chances in this event would be much brighter...
...petition brought some time ago by the President and Fellows of Harvard against the Boston Park Commissioners has been denied by Judge Barker of the Supreme Court. The petition was for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the Park Board in taking a tract of land belonging to the Bussey Institution farm for a public playground. The case is an interesting one and unusual in several particulars. It was contended by the petitioner that the commissioners had violated the statute authorizing them to take land for such purposes as public playgrounds. The question was whether the statute...
...Williamstown decision: that is, no college property shall be taxed provided that it is used for the purposes of the college corporation. Such property includes all lecture halls or dormitories owned by the College, Memorial Hall, the building of the Co-operative Society and also eight pieces of land in the vicinity of the University that are occupied by professors or others directly connected with the Corporation...