Word: barring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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London Truth furnishes a counterpart to an Oxford story of a solicitor, who, in trying for a degree in law, was "plucked" upon a text-book of which he was himself the author, as follows: "Two of the disappointed candidates at a recent examination for admission to the bar are men who have already attained eminence at the Indian bar, where the practice is substantially the same as in England, and where the standard of the bar is notoriously but little inferior. One of these gentlemen has for some years had a professional income of pound15,000 per annum...
Professor Torrey, after graduating, spent four months in teaching. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840, but at once returned to teaching. He was tutor at Harvard during the years 1844-1848, and was made McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History in 1856. Professor Torrey has rendered valuable service to the historical department, and will be remembered by graduates as being the first instructor in History to renounce the old-fashioned system of recitations in favor of lectures. He also had much to do with originating the system of reserved books at the library...
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...boxing, wrestling and fencing good men are always leaving, and, to keep up the standard, new men should come out. New entries are particularly needed for the horizontal bar and for tumbling. For the last two years, that is ever since the institution of the prize, three men have competed for the prize in general excellence, though there have been many other men in college who would have made good contestants in all the events. We hope to see this year a larger number of entries for this prize...
After giving an excellent description of the new Law School building the writer goes on to say : "It does not require a legal mind to see that with the beginning of the next academic year the would-be member of the bar is to receive his training in Coke and Blackstone under most luxurious surroundings. Whether the next generation of lawyers will be keener or more learned than those drilled in the close rooms of Dane Hall is a question, but that the Harvard student will be superior to others in his conception of the worth and dignity...