Word: writ
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Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, an institution whose services are writ large in the annals of American education; himself a teacher of teachers, to whom the country owes a lasting debt for the Teachers' College...
...hypothesis may be made that the Eteocretans migrated to southern Syria and there became Semitized as the Philistines of Holy Writ. They carried with them from Crete a system of pictographs which was renamed and perfected in Syria, and from which was derived the "Phoenician" alphabet which in later days was restored to its originators by Cadmus...
...Boston Park commissioners and the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The trouble arose from an attempt by the Commissioners to seize a tract of land belonging to the Bussey Institution farm for use as a public playground. The attorney for Harvard at once filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to stop the proceeding; but on April 25 Judge Barker, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, declined to issue the writ and dismissed the petition...
...petition brought some time ago by the President and Fellows of Harvard against the Boston Park Commissioners has been denied by Judge Barker of the Supreme Court. The petition was for a writ of certiorari to quash the proceedings of the Park Board in taking a tract of land belonging to the Bussey Institution farm for a public playground. The case is an interesting one and unusual in several particulars. It was contended by the petitioner that the commissioners had violated the statute authorizing them to take land for such purposes as public playgrounds. The question was whether the statute...
After a hearing last Wednesday, the court declined to issue the writ and dismissed the petition. This leaves the College free to proceed either in equity or by a petition for a jury at the bar of the Superior Court. Further action will be begun at once...