Word: servant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they are now, and because it is now in a condition from which. under wise guidance and with such changes as in due course of events will necessarily come, it can rapidly advance to a measure of usefulness not hitherto attainable. I am, gentlemen, with great respect, your obedient servant...
...competitive examinations which appeared in the Nineteenth Century. This protest was signed by some of the most distinguished educators of the English universities and schools; all of the signatures covered fourteen pages of the review. The protest asserts that the examination has lost its true function as the servant of education; that under the competitive system the ideal conception of scholarship has so degenerated that the examination is of more importance by the student than education...
...Harvard Law School Association offers a prize of $100 for the best essay on any of the following subjects: (1) The principle underlying the maxim volentianon fit injursa and the application of the maxim in cases where a servant sues a master to recover damages resulting from the master's failure to comply with the statutory requirements designed to secure the safety of the servant. (2) The extent to which in the United States private rights of property may be effected without compensation by the exercise of the police power. (3) The obligation of railroad companies impliedly assumed...
...some unknown person. Engraved cards of invitation to his house for today were sent out in his name. The style of the cards is unlike any he ever had, and the date is written in ink. In addition to this an advertisement stating that he desired to engage a servant girl was inserted in several Boston papers. The result of this is that he has had forty or fifty applicants. He sent to the Boston newspapers on Saturday the following statement: President Eliot desires to have it known that the cvards of invitation to his house for December 10, lately...
Chiffonet, the Misanthrope.. M. B. Clarke Machavoine, the Auvergnat...C. Davis Coquenard, the sporting gentleman. H. M. Paul Madame Coquenard. C. Copeland Prunette, the servant girl, E. L. Blossom First Domestique. A. Sweeney Chorus of domestics and of invited guests...