Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...immediate danger to slavery, came in the triumph of cotton and slavery in the Mexican war, the Kansas Bill, and the partiality of the Supreme Court to the South. When at last it grew clearer that the slave labor could not compete on equal terms with free labor and that it was impossible to give salve labor a free chance in the territories, the theory of secession became at once the foremost subject of discussion. So perfect was the unanimity and solidity of the people, that within a hundred days from the election of Lincoln they were seated...
...speeches. The order of rebuttal will be: Sincerbeaux, Merriam and Trowbridge. R. W. Ewell '03, is alternate. The main speeches will be twelve minutes in length; the rebuttal speeches five. The judges will be: Mr. William B. Hornblower, of New York; Judge Addison Brown, of the United States District Court; and Mr. Oscar S Straus, United States minister to Turkey. General Curtis Guild '81, of Boston, will preside...
...judges were Judge J. R. Dunbar, of the Supreme Court, Judge J. B. Richardson, of the Superior Court, and Mr. E. A. Church...
...School Faculty has voted to observe February 4, in honor of the memory of Chief Justice John Marshall. On February 4, 1801 John Marshall was appointed chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President John Adams. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard...
...following men have been secured as judges for the Harvard-Yale debate: Mr. William B. Hornblower, of New York; Judge Addison Brown, of the United States District Court; and Hon Oscar S. Straus, United States Minister to Turkey...