Word: legally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...degree of any graduate of the university for participating in such disturbances, provided he has not held the degree for more than one week. Mr. B. R. Curtis has advanced, through the columns of a contemporary, an opinion on the subject which wins approbation from some of our best legal authorities and most devoted friends of the university. The concluding part of his last article is subjoined : "The overseers voted to reserve the right to revoke degrees not held longer than one week. This language is plain. It indicates unmistakably that the degree may be voted, handed over, and then...
...correspondent writes to the Boston Advertiser criticising the recent action of the board of overseers in passing a vote to revoke any degree within one week after commencement, if cause of complaint is found against the recipient for disorderly conduct. The letter cites abundant legal precedent, and shows the absurdity of the regulation, as being illegal and impossible of execution-a criticism that has occurred to all, we have no doubt, upon first reading the vote...
...Department of Political Science," yet the advantages she offers for the study of politics and political history are unsurpassed by those of any other American college. The courses offered at Harvard in Constitutional History and Political Economy form the best possible training for young men whose aspirations are toward legal or political honors...
...term 'fellow' in its historic sense conferred the right to participate in the determination and decision of all university matters. Edward Everett and Professors Ticknor and Norton advocated with great earnestness and ability the right of all members of the faculty to seats in the governing board, while the legal members of the corporation and overseers maintained that representation could not be claimed as a right, either from the terms of the charter or from the history and use of the word 'fellow.' This position was taken by Judges Story and Jackson, and Chief-Justice Parker and others. The decision...
Governor Hoyt of Pennsylvania has fixed Tuesday, Oct. 24, as a legal holiday for the observance of the bi-centennial throughout the State...