Word: bench
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taken part in these races there were 870 survivors residing in Great Britain two years ago, besides others who could not be traced. Many of these had become clergyman, several reaching the position of bishops. The legal profession also absorbed many, justices of the English bench being among this number. Mr. Waddington, ex-premier of France, rowed in 1849, and Dr. Hornby, headmaster of Eton, in the same year, Mr. W. Spottiswood, president of the Royal Society, is also a 'Varsity Crew man. Altogether the list of intellectual oarsmen from Oxford and Cambridge is remarkable and speaks well...
...evidence that he knows anything about humor. He learns the venerable practical jokes that have been handed down from one undergraduate generation to another. He never originates a new joke, but is content to repeat the stupid exploits of dull predecessors." Surely the Times man has overlooked the recent bench-greasing exploit at Dartmouth, or the illustrated supplement which the Yale News formerly indulged...
...meetings of the Athletic Association last year suggests that some new arrangements be made for the meetings next month. It is of prime importance that no more seats should be sold than the reserved section can accommodate. Although it is impossible to reserve special seats, it seems that the benches might be numbered and the tickets marked so that a man should know that a part of some particular bench is reserved for him. If this seems impracticable, the seats might be divided into plats or sections, which can be referred to on the tickets. To avoid dissatisfaction the principle...
...these students devote themselves to what in German universities is called philosophy, which includes natural history, the languages and the exact sciences. Next to this the heaviest increase has occurred in the number of the law students, the Prussian universities alone having 2558 candidates for the honors of the bench and bar. The only marked decrease has occurred in the number of students devoted to Catholic theology, while Protestant theology attracts very many students, especially when taught by evangelical professors...
...seen in taking Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 'a closet lawyer,' or one who has made the law a study rather than a profession, for a new professorship. This appointment was regarded on all sides as admirable, and great was the disappointment when Professor Holmes was transferred to the Supreme Bench. Judge Holmes is himself a good type of the class of lawyers Harvard seeks to give the country, and, so far as the resources here outlined can accomplish that end, he is eminently well qualified to strengthen and ennoble the profession in the eyes of the world...