Word: suits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Until 1786 students at both Harvard and Yale, were ranked entirely according to social position. Rank lists of the classes were posted in the beginning of freshman year, and were eagerly awaited. Yale was the first to abolish the system and Harvard followed suit five years later. - Yale News...
...taken from him and put in the hands of this association. This revolution was effected with the aid of the civil authorities, who saw the value of the Universities more clearly than the Church did. The masters refused to accept any one given a license if he did not suit them. The initiation of the new master into the body of the masters consisted of a lecture and a dinner...
...diagram of a gentleman birching a boy, gave a good illustration of "Quarter Merited." A second displayed a picture of Austin Hall. A third had cartoons of a gory scalp, labeled, "The First Fee," a Puritan demolishing an Indian, thereby illustrating the "Ancient Action of Conversion;" a convict suit labeled "Livery of Seizer," and a bargain between a poco and an aborigine, representing the "Ancient Action for a Suit." A fourth showed a gentleman being killed vigorously in "Joint Action; "on the reverse an aged darkey was made to illustrate "Black-Male," and a pompous military man, a "Grand Sergeant...
...Aubrey tells us he was in the habit of making a yearly sojourn among his old neighbors at Stratford, and we know that he was buying land there, adding to his acres almost with every visit, raising crops as an amateur farmer, and even entering a suit against one Philip Rogers because he had not paid the ambitious farmer for some grain which had been sold to him. This Philip Rogers was very likely the kinsman of the fair Katharine Rogers, whom Shakespeare might have seen before the altar in the parish church of Stratford, one morning in 1605, when...
...same earnestness and vigilance which has always characterized his work in the assignment of students rooms, and we shall see a marked change in the appearance of our dormitories. Now that the appointment is made, we wonder why it was not thought of before, for the two duties suit each other admirably, and certainly no one better fitted to fill both offices could be found than Mr. Danforth...