Word: courts
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...request of the Legislature the tutors were required to give written declarations of their political principles, and after the return from Concord one student who had been absent was refused readmission, because he had been "using the most impudent, insulting, and abusive language against the American Congress and General Court...
PUBLIC attention has of late been called to the gentleman who represents us at the Court of St. James, by the publication of a volume from his pen, discussing in a masterly manner the rules of Draw Poker. Many have thought such a work beneath the dignity of a United States Minister; and the frequency with which this dignity has been urged has revived the memory of an experience of my own which may not prove uninteresting...
...taken, so it had to come off again. Once more I had to go through the painful transition-period, and a third engagement compelled me to shave it off again. I am now getting desperate. Shall not try it again, but I have sent for some extra-adhesive court-plaster, flesh color, which I am going to paste on my upper lip. Perhaps that will keep the mustache from growing. If it does not, my last hope is blasted, and all that remains is suicide...
...LEARNED treatise by our Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of St. James is for sale at the University Bookstore. The subject of the work is interesting, and, considering the high standing of the author and the undoubted excellence of the book, its price is quite reasonable...
...caucus, and possibly taste the sweets of office. The voters would parade the town in caps and gowns, and listen to stirring addresses in Greek and Latin; and the venerable College would flourish, unrestrained by other rule than that of the body which first founded it, the "General Court of Massachusetts...