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...vain were the donations, execrations, and castigations heaped by the Freshman Class on the Seniors yesterday, for at a late hour last night it was learned that the plates of the pictures of both classes were null and void...
...upon their race in the last three centuries they have not yielded their sovereignty. Presumably the stubborn Chief Hoag is not ignorant of the fate of other Indians .who also had treaties with the U. S. He remembers the Cherokees whose lands were "annexed" by Georgia in 1828. In vain they appealed to President Jackson. He told them to submit to Georgia or get out across the Mississippi. When the now sacred Chief Justice Marshall, in an elaborate opinion, declared that Georgia had no jurisdiction in the Cherokee territory, the acrid old President frostily remarked: "John Marshall has made...
...home, and I reflect that the people who have been applauding me have received no benefit and that, indeed, whatever benefit they might have had, has been killed in the applause, I am sore at heart and I lament and I feel as though I had spoken altogether in vain." Scholar, he was lecturing to scholars. His words were not meat, he thought, for the hounds of the press and, with an almost pathetic earnestness, he tried to shoo them away.* First, the Dean insisted that the New Testament contained no detailed guidance either for the making of sermons...
...business firm rents property under circumstances which make necessary the expenditure of money on upkeep, can such expenditures be deducted from Federal income tax return as operating expenses? "No," said the Court. Such expenditure is really additional rent, claimed the Central R. R. of New Jersey-in vain...
Probably not since Henry VIII tried in vain to get an annulment of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon has a matrimonial case been so long in the courts of the Roman Catholic Church as that on which nine Cardinals have just handed down a final decision...