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...appropriated toward the endowing of a profesor of law, or a profesor of physic and anatomy, whichever the Corporation and Overseers of the College shall judge best for its benefit: and they shall have full power to sell said lands and put the money out to interest, the income whereof shall be for the aforesaid purpose." It was not until 1815 that the College authorities deemed it wise to establish the chair, which they named the Royall Professorship of Law. In 1816, Isaac Parker, '86, was chosen the first professor of that foundation. It is interesting to note also that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professorships Perpetuate Memory of Founders Two Hundred Years Ago | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Firestone knows whereof he speaks, for his company has experimented on rubber-growing in many a strange hot clime, particularly down in Liberia where the Firestones have a 1,000,000-acre rubber concession, 10,000 acres of which have already been cleared and planted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Firestone Jr. | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...present at the Lenglen-Wills match at Cannes, but was close to the players in all of the New York matches referred to and know whereof I speak. I am reliably informed that Miss Wills was never within a point of winning the second set, nor did I see any of the American papers claiming that she "had been cheated out of the match by the stupidity of an Englishman." Cyril Tolley was close to the line, in the best position to judge the ball in the disputed incident which occurred in the eighth game with the score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 22, 1926 | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...Plympton Street and to the world at each end of Plympton Street, and even beyond, a column worthy longer and wider streets or greens or whatnot, a column which will at worst be a cenotaph, at best a pillar of salt. For, "if the salt shall lose its savor"--whereof the column? To Perfervid Professors and People In The Next Seats is it dedicated. Civilizations and columns are built on both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 1/14/1926 | See Source »

...faith whereof the above mentioned plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty. Done at Locarno the 16th of October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Treaties | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

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