Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...strength of many of the scenes, for with all of his youthful crudities on his head, this lad has in his play some splendid passages of tense and virile drama-and above all the work of Mrs. Fiske as the converted scrubwoman and of Holbrook Blinn as her brutal convict lover will lay them under one of those spells which are found in the theatre nowadays only once in a blue moon...
...prosecution of the corrupt politicians in San Francisco, some of the minor offenders had to be pardoned because they were the only sources of legal evidence necessary to convict the higher officials who were at the bottom of the corruption. The aim in all this was to show young men and women that dishonesty does not pay and that no person is above the law because he is wealthy...
...combat, the opponents settle their differences in the court room. If they happen to be of different sexes, the man is hampered by bonds. In a trial by oaths, the oaths were made to be very difficult, a mere slip of the tongue in stating them being enough to convict the swearer. Not only veracity, but the strength of the oath was taken into account; for instance, a parson's oath was worth twice as much as a deacon's. In trials by arbitration, the judge is the mediating power. In closing, Professor Vinogradoff said that every country has been...
...Charles H. Hawes, of Trinity college, Cambridge, England, will give an illustrated lecture this evening in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum at 8 o'clock on the results of his explorations in the island of Sakhalin, Eastern Siberia, which he visited to study the Russian convict settlements and the native tribes...
...difficult to convict violators of the above rule that a committee must necessarily rely upon the honor and good sense of students to draw the line at the proper place. Every student knows when he is receiving a money benefit by reason of his connection with a game, and if he is not honorable enough to refrain, our college sports must suffer...