Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Justice Holmes and the Constitution" is a review and critique by Felix Frankfurter '06, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, of the Cases and decisions of the United States Supreme Court during the twenty-five years on the bench of Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...tutors, they will be unrestrained. Behind this experiment lies the theory that U. S. education is too tightly hemmed in with supervision. Education is obtained by force feeding; not sought because minds are hungry. Harvard believes a man will learn more by seeking learning; than by sitting on a bench and having learning thrust upon him; believes that the desire to know is stronger than the fear of ignorance. Said Dean A. C. Hanford: "Present educational methods are comparatively satisfactory, but they also lack much of the force which springs from methods more than satisfactory. "A small group will perhaps...
HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the front opposition bench there arose onetime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to demand a vote of censure upon the Government for its mismanagement of the coal industry problem and its neglect of the unemployment situation...
...Philip Cunliffe-Lister, President of the Board of Trade, rose from his seat on the Government bench to answer for the Government. He got no further...
Throughout the caterwaul Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, pale-faced and tightlipped, sat imperturbably on the treasury bench. Finally, the speaker said that he was under the impression that the proponents of the censure motion wanted a reply...