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...Harvard Law School Association. While the main purport of the essay is to treat of the development of the law of corporations, the more popular aspect of these institutions as shown in their external history and in their influence in the commercial world of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not neglected. The essay is, therefore, interesting to general readers since it does not partake of the purely technical character that is often found in legal periodicals and which is attractive only to legal minds. Mr. Abbott's paper also avoids too great technicality. He traces the growth...
...Clarendon Press is to issue soon a series of at least ten large maps of properties in Oxfordshire belonging to some of the colleges, and all dating from the beginning of the seventeenth century...
...noted some time since that Hare and Hound runs have taken place here in the past and that the custom would be continued this fall. Hitherto, the scratch races have been one of the features of the fall term. Two years ago they occurred on the seventeenth of October. Last year they were delayed on account of the anniversary celebration. Such things as baseball games have been known to be during October, but never until this year of grace has such absolute stagnation been seen in athletic matters. Besides the eleven, which we believe is working hard, although...
...town of Roxbury, founded soon after Boston, did much work towards the close of the Seventeenth Century in starting new colonies, and among many was one, Woodstock, Connecticut, which on the seventh of last September celebrated its two hundredth birthday. The above is an historical sketch delivered on that day to the people, and traces the town's history to the present...
...great world of humanity lay around it unfelt, unregarded. The secular world was absorbed, was ignored or denounced. Like a rock in a great sea, rising upon its own foundations, beaten upon by waves of which it took no manner of account. So stands the Puritanism of the seventeenth century; so Harvard College which it built in the midst of the multifarious and restless history...