Word: benefiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis would spend more time trying to make his library an up-to-date institution where one can keep in some sort of half-hazard contact with the progress of the modern mind instead of writing notes to the editor of TIME, he would be of much more benefit to humanity...
Whether any advantages have been derived from the abandonment of the English model, however, is a question which Dean Pound does not attempt to answer. He points out that in taking an independent course we have lost any benefit which might accrue from judicial experience, judicial empiricism, and independent courts. This is preferable, however, to undergoing that strong reaction which invariably follows on the heels of judicial depotism. A few dominating figures on the bench might illustrate very well the advantages of a strong independent judge but, after their passing comes lax criminal law, in the throes of which, according...
Last week, Detroiters introduced another new model. It had no balloon tires, no windshield, no horn. It was a mayor not a motor. It was Mayor John Christian Lodge who won office without benefit of one campaign speech, one political promise, one rooster-boost. Wearing a new grey suit and looking not unlike Henry Ford, Mayor Lodge offered his right hand to all-comers. Policemen gripped so hard that Mayor Lodge, wincing but glad, had to give others his left hand. When subordinate city officials were brought forward for formal introduction, Mayor Lodge called them by their first names...
There are, nevertheless, a limited number of courses in which it is possible for the majority of undergraduates to listen to isolated lectures with benefit. Some of these the Student Vagabond mentions. But here again an obstacle presents itself, in that in a number of cases the professors themselves fail to notify the Vagabond of the subjects of their lectures. Patently in such cases we come to an impasse. The Student Vagabond...
...final and most important step is to restore the right of the judge to control the jury trial and to give the jury the benefit of his advice on the facts. The trial should be by a judge with a jury, and not by a jury before a judge...