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...common one, and in so doing has made sure that in a future life he will find himself in a distinguished circle. In addition to Captain Boycott, Aloysius Hansom will be there; also those two redoubtable Scots, Charles M. Macintosh and John Loudon McAdam; and the first Lord Brougham and the fourth Earl of Sandwich and the great Duke of Wellington in his famous boots...
...surveys the conflicts of law during the last 50 years. Dean Emeritus of Northwestern University's Law School, John Henry Wigmore, 75, lightly recalls his early assignment to develop the Recent Cases and Notes departments. His prize Note, he says, was this quotation of Henry Lord Brougham in an 1846 British Parliamentary report on legal education...
Still the aristocrat of the domestic automobiles, the Duesenberg has added a new Opera Brougham to its line of body types. And it remains the only American car without skirts on the fenders-and the most expensive...
...Lindbergh's N. Y.-Paris plane was never condemned by the Department of Commerce as unsafe. It was barred from commercial use only because it held an experimental license. About one hundred sister ships (Ryan Brougham monoplanes) are still in service throughout the land...
...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...