Word: oath
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...such college or university, or any individual whatsoever. And any player who is specially challenged under this section by any member of the association in writing, shall, within five days after the filing of such challenge, file with the secretary of the association, an affidavit, duly verified under oath, showing that he is in no way violating the provisions of this section, and upon his failure to make and file such affidavit he shall be barred from participating in any contest of this association. And in case the sufficiency of such affidavit be questioned by the challenging party...
Pach Bros. secured a large instantaneous photograph of President Harrison in the act of taking the oath of office...
...magnify some popular hero. Letters have been saved from a dim sense of their future use. The separation of the Germans and the French after the dismemberment of the Empire of Charlemagne is shown unconsciously by a treaty between Louis and Charles, his grandchildren, which was sanctioned by an oath repeated by each sovereign in the language of the other. Thus was shown that two nations had arisen. The German of the one was clear and distinct from the French of the other. This fact comes to us through the Eatin chronicler, who unconsciously has given a record...
...school. At the beginning of the 13th century there were 10,000 students in Bologna; toward the end of the century the number had doubled. The town of course did its utmost to keep the trade of these foreigners, even to the extent of binding the professors by oath not to teach elsewhere but in Bologna. The extortions and injustice to the students at last brought about voluntary associations based on geographical lines, which ultimately became the University of Bologna. The mediaeval conception of universitas is the civil law idea of corporation, college, corps, i. e., a juristic personality...
Among other requirements, it is therein provided that the oath of the proper officer of the society or institution shall be produced, showing the character of the institution, and that the article was imported therefor, and is to remain as its permanent property, and is not for sale or distribution. It is also provided that in no case will the oath of the importer, who is not connected with the society or institution concerned, be accepted as a sufficient compliance with such regulations, although such evidence may be accepted as auxiliary. In practice it is found that colleges and other...