Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...managers of the Infantry Hall skating rink, Providence, were yesterday summoned to appear before a United States commissioner to answer a complaint brought under the civil rights' act for refusing admission to a colored lawyer because of his color. There will be a hearing tomorrow...
...will of the late Edwin W. Stoughton, the well known lawyer and late United States minister to Russia, has been offered for probate. He leaves to the trustees of the medical school connected with Dartmouth College $2000, to complete a collection in the pathological museum founded...
...university is helped by the success of its graduates in their respective callings. Some years ago an eminent lawyer from the West, not himself a college-bred man, and having no affiliations with Harvard, placed his son in the university. When I asked him why he had selected Harvard as the place for his son's education, he replied: "In my practice I have observed that a large number of men, whose principles I respected, whose manners I liked, and whose idea of professional honor and public duty commended themselves to me, were graduates of Harvard...
...this end the managers have determined to make it the finest affair of the kind ever given in the city. Professors Child and Goodwin and Messrs. C. F. Adams and Phillipps Brooks have signified their intention of accompanying President Eliot to Chicago. Walter C. Larned, a prominent Chicago lawyer, is chairman of the committee. F. S. G. Reed, '81, will act as chorister on the occasion...
Yesterday Mr. Scoville delivered a very cleverly conceived argument in Guiteau's behalf, such as would naturally be addressed by a shrewd lawyer in a desperate case. It tended, of course, to raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury as to Guiteau's sanity. The testimony given in the case covers 2000 printed pages, given by over 100 different witnesses...