Word: law
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lowell Lecture, by Professor G. G. Wilson, on "The Law of the Sea in War Time." 491 Boylston street, Boston...
...Cambridge Historical Society in Sanders Theatre last evening. Members of the Harvard Memorial Society were honorary ushers. The Right Reverend William Lawrence '71, Bishop of Massachusetts presided. The addresses were full of interesting anecdotes of Dana as a man of letters, a lawyer, a writer on international law, an anti-slavery leader, and as a citizen, and Bishop Lawrence, in introducing the other speakers, spoke briefly of Dana as a churchman...
...Choate spoke of "Dana as a Citizen, Lawyer, and Writer on International Law." Mr. Dana's first venture in politics, in his thirty-second year, he said, marked clearly his independence of spirit, his love of the right, and determination to maintain it at whatever cost, and his clear foresight into the political future. He hated the Abolitionists, who were altogether too unconventional for him, but he made his debut in political life as chairman of the Free Soil Meetings at the Tremont Temple. He declared: 'I am a Free Soiler because I am (who should...
...Right Reverend William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts will preside. The Honorable Joseph H. Choate '52, late ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James, will read a paper on Dana as a citizen, a lawyer, and a writer on the subject of international law. Professor Bliss Perry will speak of Dana as a man of letters and as the author of "Two Years Before the Mast," and the Honorable Moorfield Storey '66 will talk on what Dana did in connection with the antislavery movement. The meeting has been arranged by a special committee which has secured...
...member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College from 1865 to 1876. From 1871 to 1876 he was president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the last 35 years of his life he devoted his time to research and writing upon the subject of international law. He received the degree of LL.D in 1866 from Harvard. He died in Italy while on an extended tour on January...