Word: benches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...powerful influence that its Faculty and Alumni have had and can have upon the development of law and the establishment of justice throughout our land. Its students, from all parts of the country and from all classes of our people, are trained not only for the bar and the bench, but for leadership in public life...
...suggestion of W. Cameron Forbes '92, and P. D. Haughton 99, both former University football coaches, three rows of the Players' Bench will be reserved for old football "H" men and their families. Steps will lead from these seats on to the field, allowing the old players to reach the side-lines. This innovation in the Stadium is taken directly from the "old blue" stands beside the fields of English colleges...
...colleges of our allies. The universities of Canada have sent forth a far greater proportion of their graduates than have the colleges and universities of this country, and a greater proportion of them have been killed. The University of Toronto, for instance, contributed about 5,400 men from students' bench and professors' chair, of whom 604 gave up their lives, or somewhat more than 10 per-cent. Similar contributions have been made by Oxford and Cambridge, and by other English and Scotch universities. Over 11,176 Oxford men had enrolled by the middle of the war, and afterward the number...
...decision of the full bench of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in the Gordon McKay Fund litigation, the agreement between the University and Technology in regard to the Fund was declared invalid. The endowment is founded under the will of the late Gordon McKay '96, and when eventually paid over to the University, will probably amount to over $30,000,000. Under the agreement the University suspended its instruction in applied science and devoted three-fifths of the income of the endowment to the maintenance of the engineering department of Technology...
...been wandering for the past two weeks of uninterrupted drill. Class-rooms are something to which he has become inured by long training. Much as he may tremble on the field before the eye of the omniscent instructor, once safe behind the first-line trenches of a bench in a Sever Hall room, he feels himself master of his own destiny. The instructor is there to find out how little he knows. He is there to show how much...