Word: courting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...poets cannot always, declare with Carlyle that there is nothing else but justice in the universe, they can at least assert the ultimate triumph of justice. They believer that whether you or I win or lose, the "forts of folly" will one day fall. If beaten in the lower court of the understanding, they made their proud appeal to Caesar, to the imperial rights of the imagination...
...Oxford street, Cambridge, just north of Conant Hall. It is expected that the equipment will be fully installed before the beginning, next September, of the first full academic year of the Engineering School; which was opened last autumn as a result of the decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Court that the funds of the Gordon McKay bequest could not be used jointly by Harvard and the Institute of Technology...
Several additions and changes in the athletic plant of the University are contemplated in connection with the above scheme. These will embrace the reclaiming of a considerable portion of the marshy ground on Soldiers Field, the conversion of the Randolph tennis court into twelve squash courts, the remodeling of Little's courts, and the construction of a temporary wooden building on the land directly back of the Freshman Dormitories to provide an additional basketball court and several small rooms for fencing, boxing, and wrestling...
...University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology agreed to co-operate in the conduct of instruction and research in engineering and mining. As this agreement involved the use of the McKay Fund, it was subject to the approval of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. After three years of litagation, that body declared that Mr. McKay had intended that his fortune should be spent solely for the University, and that it was therefore not within the powers of the University to combine with M. I. T. Thereupon the departments of Engineering and Mining, with a new department of Industrial Chemistry, were...
...Certainly it would take gallons of 3 per cent, beer to have the slightest deleterious effect. As for light wines, even were they intoxicating, their high price would continue seriously to limit their use, and to do away with their abuse altogether. We feel confident that if the Supreme Court of the United States interpreted the 18th Amendment as applying only to spirituous liquors, which alone are intoxicating, and not to light wines and beer, they would be carrying out the will of a majority of the people, and a larger majority of the University...