Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small south reading room in Langdell Hall is hung with portraits, for the most part of the Law School Faculty prior to 1879. On the center of the south wall is the group of the Royall family painted by Feke. Isaac Royall was a Boston merchant who, dying in 1781, provided in his will for a Harvard professorship of law or physic. It was not, however, until 1815 that the Corporation, which had chosen to establish a professorship of law, was able to do so. The Royall Professorship is, next to the Vinerian at Oxford, the oldest named professorship...
...Superior Court of Judicature for the Province of Massachusetts in 1729, and in 1752 was made chief justice. He died in 1760. The painting by Feke, is regarded as a splendid example of his work, of which the School has another in the group of the family of Isaac Royall, founder of the Royall professorship. The Law School was able to acquire the Sewall portrait through the generosity of the Harvard Law School Association, and some 35 graduates and friends...
Before the University meet this evening, the Harvard first year grapplers will undertake to throw the Tufts Freshmen at 7 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium. The only change in the lineup is the replacement of H. A. Meta '33 for Isaac Harter '33 in the 175-pound class...
...chemical education is James Medbery MacKaye of Dartmouth College. Last week he spellbound the American Philosophical Association, meeting in Manhattan, with his picture of a dynamic universe. The philosophers applauded the MacKaye universe as more perceivable and understandable than Dr. Albert Einstein's, more realistic than Sir Isaac Newton...