Word: pinkertons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fitted for College at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N. H., and was graduated from Harvard at the head of his class in 1844, and from the Harvard Law School in 1846. Among his college classmates were Francis Parkman, William M. Hunt, the artist; Benjamin Apthorp Gould and General E. A. Wild of Brookline...
...Thomas Hamel Pinkerton, born 20 June, 1817, at Amesbury; died at Oakland, Cal., 4 August...
...Chairman of the Class Day Committee is very glad to receive suggestions as to the arrangements for Class Day, but he does not think it advisable to employ policemen for ticket takers as was suggested in Thursday's CRIMSON. Pinkerton men as a rule have given previous committees perfect satisfaction, and the chairmen of these committees strongly urge the engaging of the same men for this service. The general facts of the instance last year of a ticket taker entertaining his friends at the gymnasium, were correctly stated in the communication in Thursday's paper, but the superintendent...
...Class Day is now near at hand, a word of admonition to the "powers that be," concerning the employment of Pinkerton men on that occasion, is not amiss. For the past few years these detectives. who are usually mustered from the roughs of the North End in Boston, have been employed by some one in power to watch over the yard and the surrounding spreads. At times they have made themselves most objectionable. Last year several stationed themselves at the gate of the gymnasium spread and tried to admit their lady friends by attempting to bulldoze the proper custodian. This...
...Company is justifiable in employing Pinkerton detectives. - (a). Capital has a right to protect itself. (b). The property of the Co. was in immediate danger of destruction. (c). The Co. had reason to believe in the dilatoriness of the local authorities: N. Y. Herald, July 8, 1892. (d). The Pinkertons are engaged in a lawful occupation and are reliable and trustworthy: Nation, July 28, 1892, p. 60, also N. Y. Herald, July 23, 1892. (e). The legal right to employ them is undeniable: George Ticknor Curtis in No. Am. Review for Sept. (f). They were engaged for defense...