Word: benching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austin Hall, the capacity indicated is to he had only by crowding in extra chairs man extent which is not consistent with convenient use of the rooms, and in some instances is downright unsafe. In two lecture rooms it has been necessary to put in chairs with no bench or arm upon which to write. Obviously such a condition impairs the effectiveness of the teaching...
Before Mr. Justice McCardie in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice went one of those periodic scandals that causes the various strata of British society to experience the gamut of emotions...
Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, poet, soldier, barrister, and justice of the Supreme Court, retires from the bench tomorrow on his eighty-fourth birthday. His life has been intimately connected with that of the nation for 60 years, 32 of which he has served on the country's highest judical body. His retirement recalls some of the events of the life of this most illustrious graduate of the University...
...fine. Last week, the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his conviction. But, when the time came for him to surrender himself and go to jail, he was not in Manhattan, the place where he was sentenced. The court forfeited his bail and issued a bench warrant for him. Mr. Garvey had not decamped, however ; he was merely late in making his jail appearance. Next day, coming into Manhattan on a train, he was arrested, although he protested volubly that he wras coming to surrender himself. A day or two later, he set out for the Federal prison...
...most liberal-minded men who has been in the Attorney General's office in a decade. He is not only a man of extraordinary ability but he is a man of liberal mind, and the deepest regret I have in seeing him advance to the Supreme Court bench is that he is leaving the Attorney General's office, where I think he has been doing magnificent work ever since he has been there." The upshot of this prolonged