Word: artful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...LECTURE. "The Story of Iphigenia in Ancient Art," (illustrated), Professor J. H. Wright. Harvard...
...consideration of the requisites of a capable lawyer, a young man who has decided to enter the profession should consider his own equipment. The court lawyer ought to possess a thorough working knowledge of the law as a foundation, and this should be supplemented by a mastery of the art of speaking. He should not attempt to be an orator, but should make clear statements in accurate English. The office lawyer must be able to write clearly and succinctly, otherwise he will be a failure. Above all, every lawyer should be a cultured gentleman with a strong personality...
...practice of law is an art. Law itself is a science and a noble profession which is worthy of the deepest devotion...
...LECTURE. "The Story of Iphigenia in Ancient Art," (illustrated), Professor J. H. Wright, Harvard...
...scene of both acts is laid at Machiavelli's villa near Florence, in the year 1500. Machiavelli is an ardent devotee of the art of lying and in the practice of this art grossly slanders his ancestors. The ghost of di Luto, his great grandfather, appears to him at midnight in the garden of his villa and decreses that as a punishment for his irreverence, Machiavelli shall ever afterwards lie, but, upon the intercession of his daughter Lucrezia, di Luto agrees that if by telling a lie he shall ever be able to tell the truth, the curse shall...