Word: personal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...person will be admitted to the church (before the class), or to the exercises at the Tree, without a reserved seat; and no gentleman to Memorial Hall, the President's Reception, or the Yard in the evening, without a ticket...
MASSACHUSETTS. - (488 students.) - A person may vote who has resided one year within the State, and six months within the city or town in which he offers his vote, and has paid a tax within two years, provided he is able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name...
...YORK. - (99 students.) - Every person has a right to vote who has been a citizen for ten days, and an inhabitant of the State for one year, and a resident of the county four months and of the district thirty days, all next preceding the election, and is not interested in any bet concerning the result of the election...
...best interests of the country are so deeply concerned. For this purpose we have made, from Prof. Parsons's "Rights of a Citizen of the United States," the following resume of the qualifications required in those States from which most of our students come. In all the States a person must be a citizen of the United States, twenty-one years old, and must take a prescribed oath to support the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the State in which he offers his vote...
...small cabinet from which the staircase descends to an oubliette. You receive him with civility and extend your hand. He extends his hand in return. You seize him by the arm, twitch him suddenly around to the head of the staircase, apply the hobnailed shoe to his person, and send him flying down stairs into the oubliette. Then, after the noise of his fall is over, you rearrange your dress, ring for the butler, order a bottle of your best Old Madeira, - a wine somewhat out of fashion, but for which you retain your taste, - and indulge in the delightful...