Word: bars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Parallel bar. - C. E. Loud, '87, T. C. Batchelder, L. S., A. T. Perkins, '87, J. C. Faulkner...
...first number; for the issue not only keeps up, but even raises the paper's reputation. The most noticeable feature is the change on the first page; instead of the old plainly lettered Harvard Lampoon we have a very attracting heading, which shows Lampy sitting on the cross bar of the H, playing a banjo. Another improvement which lightens the appearance of the page, has been made by printing all the reading matter and most of the pictures without ruled lines, either on the borders or to divide the columns. Then, too, paper of a lighter tint is used...
...During my stay in Boston last spring, men engaged in legal practice spoke to me of the great value of the law-teaching at Harvard University. Mr. Sidney Bartlett, the Father of the Massachusetts Bar, told me that the three-years' course at Harvard was equal to seven years' work in an office. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Dr. Eliot, President of the university, spoke to the same effect. Dr. Eliot related with pardonable pride that at a recent dinner of old Harvard men a prominent young advocate had declared that, when he was a student, he had often...
...building in which are held the Common Pleas Court, the Superior, Criminal, and Civil Courts, and the Supreme Court, and within a stone's throw are the United States district and Circuit Courts; to all these court-rooms the law students are admitted with members of the bar, and have rare opportunities to see practical application of the principles which they find in their books. The Law School library is said to be the best in the country, containing all the English and American reports...
...life, as they are called (whether worth the winning or not) are seldom obtained by the clever. A youth of this stamp takes the chief seat at a club or a dinner party, and sometimes obtains a butterfly reputation in literature, but he does not shine at the bar, he will never sit upon the bench, or arrive at eminence among the faculty, These positions are won by square jawed men, who can neither make nor read vers de societe, but who have the tenacity of a bull-terrier and the ambition of Lucifer. They are certainly offensive in their...