Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Executive Committee of the tennis association has decided to abolish the right which has hitherto existed only by courtesy to the private ownership of courts. The association will take charge of the marking, etc., of courts, and all members will have a right to play on any court as soon as they have paid an assessment of fifty cents, which must be levied in order to meet the expenses of marking. No one will be allowed to play on any of the grounds of the college till this assessment has been paid. The association will give orders to have...
...death of Ezra Abbott, Harvard loses another of those men who have done most to add to her reputation. The name of Dr. Abbott is probably better known to the outside world than was his figure to the greater number of the undergraduates; yet every student feels a part-ownership in the reflected glory of that name and deep regret at the loss which Harvard shares with world. It is the character of such men no less than their learning that makes their influence a whole some one and in Dr. Abbott was combined a character of the rarest purity...
...follows : 1. "Regulation of Inter-State Commerce." 2. "Strikes." 3. "Recent Decision of the Supreme Court on the Civil Rights Bill." 4. "Government Control of Telegraph." The graduating theses must be written upon the following subjects : 1. "Development of the Law of mortgages." 2. "Estoppel by Silence." 3. "Joint Ownership by Chattles." The subject for those studying for the degree of M. L. is : "The Consolidation of Railways and the Government of Cities." For those in the D. C. L. course it is "Customary...
...times. But although they may see dozens of courts unoccupied they do not feel at liberty to use them. Let it be understood that during the morning and until three or perhaps four o'clock in the afternoon every court is open to the first comer. That is, that ownership of a court consists merely of the right to have the exclusive use of a court between certain prescribed hours of the afternoon. Let any person have the right to use any unoccupied court between three and six, provided only that he be ready to yield the court...
...cannot restrain a feeling of surprise that a body of men occupying so high a social position as is claimed by most Harvard men should number some whose conception of the rights of ownership of their fellow students is so small. The summary treatment which gymnasium and laboratory thieves have met with in years past has, it is hoped, tended to make such diversions as theirs unpopular; but the umbrella fancier has returned to college with his cupidity undiminished - rather increased by the knowledge that no attempt is ever made to detect him. It is to the credit...