Word: bentham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord High Chancellor Sankey who pre sides, either over the House of Lords as a Court of Appeal (as Speaker of the House of Lords he gets an additional ?4,000) or over the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Also, in the words of the late, great Jeremy Bentham, the Lord High Chancellor is "the chief and most constant legal adviser of the King in all matters of law . . . keeper of the great seal, a various, multifarious and indefinable office . . . the possessor of a multitude of heterogeneous scraps of power too various to be enumerated." The Lord Chief Justice...
...Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), great English philosopher-economist, arranged for his skeleton to attend the centennial celebration of his death (TIME, June 20, 1932). When not at commemorative gatherings, the Bentham skeleton sits in a wooden box at the University of London, dressed in Bentham's own clothes. The Bentham skull, fleshed out with tinted wax and hair, lies on the floor of the box between the Bentham foot bones...
Last week in Chicago's Palmer House, nine men and women calling themselves naprapaths, without the wit of Hunter or Bentham, without the reverence of the Egyptians, made shocking news by having a skeleton as honor guest at breakfast...
Chief exponent of laissez-faire as a political doctrine, Bentham developed a philosophy of utilitarianism whose catchword became "the greatest happiness of the greatest number." Bashful, eccentric, fond of giving names to things, he spent his last year in a house he called "The Hermitage," whose dining room was to him "The Shop." A crusty personage, he might invite you to spend the day, not bother to give you a meal until 10 p.m. When Mme de Stael visited London she gushed: "Tell Bentham I will see nobody until I have seen him." Grunted Jeremy Bentham: "Sorry...
...present University of London includes some 37 institutions scattered about the city. Among these are King's College, founded in 1828, and University College which Scottish Poet Thomas Campbell. Lord Brougham, Philosopher Bentham and others established in Bloomsbury, near the British Museum, in 1826. Poet Robert Browning and Economist John Stuart Mill studied at University College. Though the University of London has 20,000 students (more than Oxford and Cambridge combined), it is little known to Londoners, had no athletic field until a year ago. It now has brave plans for an entirely new site, also in Bloomsbury, where...