Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...defence rested yesterday noon in the case before Judge Raymond in the Middlesex Superior Court in which Robert B. Harris, a resident of Cambridge and a Boston lawyer, is charged with having taken a false oath and designed a false certificate in connection with the assessment of W. Townsent '16 of Oct. 11, 1915, at the office of the Board of Assessors. A. K. Reading, a lawyer and the manager of Mayor Rockwood's campaign for mayor, and Representative K. P. Hill were the witnesses heard today. Reading was examined and cross-examined at length, but Hill's direct examination...
Reading testified that he had made some study of the law relating to taking on oath for an applicant for assessment, and he said that, in a general way, he advised Townsend as to his rights at the time Townsend went before the Cambridge assessors...
President Eliot spoke of the public weal, and introduced the last speaker, Judge F. C. Lowell '76, who fully explained the "Freeman's Oath," and then administered it to those who desired...
...Beginning with the study of medicine, a rapid assimilation of western education took place. The revolutionary ideas thus brought about made possible the peaceful restoration of the imperial dynasty in 1868. At that time an oath of five articles was sworn to by the emperor. As a result of this oath the feudal system was abolished. Owing to the leadership of the late Prince Ito this and the other reforms were not brought about without great difficulty. Their success can only be ascribed to the far-sightedness of the Emperor and to the great devotion of all his subjects...