Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strong effort is being made to remove the Dartmouth medical college from Hanover to Concord. Persons interested in the attempt claim that the conditions upon which the professors of the New Hampshire medical institution became trustees of the state property at Hanover, have not been complied with, and that Attorney-General Tappan will call the attention of these men to the legislation concerning the subject. They also allege that there is quite a general feeling that the property should not be used by men who discriminate against women as medical students and that the General Court at its next session...
...cadet. For some time the cadets have amused themselves by firing off bombs and other explosives about the grounds of the institute. On Tuesday last five students were dismissed for having 90 pounds of powder in their possession. The case has been turned over to the commonwealth's attorney to fully investigate.-(Herald...
...recent decision of the acting attorney general enables athletes who win cups in foreign countries to bring them in free of duty in the future. The Spirit of the Times says: "The Ascot Cup, won by J. K. Keene's Foxhall in England, and detained in the New York Custom House for non-payment of duties, has been released, the Acting Attorney-General giving an opinion that "the article in question having a similitude in material and quality and texture, and the use to which it may be applied, to a medal made of the same material-namely, gold...
Bicyclists will be pleased to learn that by a recent decision of the attorney-general of the United States that hereafter bicycles will be considered as personal effects, and as such will be admitted free of duty when accompanied by the owner. This will enable riders to get machines in England and bring them over much cheaper than they can buy them in this country...
...Five attorney generals of the United States have been graduates of Harvard; Theophilus Parsons, Levi Lincoln, Caleb Cushing, E. R. Hoar, Chas. Devens...