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...already been intimated, the question of whether to go to law school is essentially a question of whether to take up the practice of the law. Into this question enter all the considerations which influence a man in choosing his life work. Space will permit of only the briefest mention of a few of the considerations which lead men to take up the law. Anglo-Saxon social, political and industrial life is built upon the law and the important part which lawyers have always played in the political and economic history of the Anglo-Saxon nations is too well known...
...committee could well have been pardoned had it made up only a mediocre book. Its duty to the class which entrusted it with the work of the Album would have been fulfilled with the issuing of a volume which contained the briefest chronicle of the class. Yet the Committee went beyond its simple duty, anl in spite of difficulties incomparably greater than those which have arisen in other years, has made the 1917 Album an improvement in practically every way over the preceding...
...enough, especially for western men. For students who live on the coast, to take the extreme case, ten days must be spent in transit; and this makes a journey home out of the question. Even for men who live in the Mississippi Valley the trip can only be the briefest. And the one or two extra days allowed by the Office is not enough to remedy the evil,--even if consistency may be admitted in assuming that western men can afford to miss a few hours instruction the omission of which would be fatal to eastern...
...Hongkong to New York," alike leave us not only with a desire for more, but with a certain childish resentment against those authors for not telling us what "happened" afterwards. Mr. Millet's "Book Agent" is too incomplete even for an Incident. Something ought to "happen" in the very briefest sketch. While the American book peddler is described with an effective sense of fun, his Irish colleague is not convincing. We wonder if Mr. Millet ever saw an Irish book agent in actual life. Mr. Sheldon's contribution, "The Endless Journey," is in the nature of Episode, and displays happy...
...Harvard letter speaks of sharing Yale's achievements and her hopes. Let me try in briefest fashion to describe those achievements and hopes...