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...bought copper for 16¢ when the prevailing price was 30¢, and steel for $58. Then, quietly resigning on Jan. 1, 1919, Baruch became a student?of economics in general and American farming in particular. He went to Kansas, wrote a report on agricultural marketing, a sort of Magna Charta for the farm movement. And now, in spite of his Wall St. "past," he basks in the confidence and friendship of the farmer. It is also as a student that he endows the Williams Institute. There he will go this Summer to be a student among students of every race, religion...
...Legislators walked into the Capitol without hindrance from the military. They presented a call for a special session, signed by 65 of their number, to the Secretary of State. The Secretary said it was " the most glorious doctrine in the history of Oklahoma, a new Magna Charta of American liberties...
Dean Pound dealt at considerable length with the need of knowledge of the Common Law. He traced the wresting of the first personal rights from the King of England, their incorporation in the Magna Charta, and the great influence of that "dusty parchment" upon the Anglo-Saxon race. He emphasized the necessity of building all new projects upon the firm foundation of past experience. Especially in the practice of law should attention be devoted to the gradual growth of personal liberty and the slow progress toward a rational society...
...recent opening has now been arranged at the Fogg Museum. Fourteen interesting and unusual manuscripts of the 13th and 15th centuries have just been received from the library of the Law School. Among these manuscripts, which are on exhibition for the first time today, are several copies of Magna Charta...
...Littleton (1407-1481), an English and legal writer, whose "Les Tenures" is a very rare edition; a precious book, "Exposiciones i minorz legu Angloz," by John Rastell the English printer and author who served in Parliament in 1529; and a number of valuable manuscripts dealing with the Magna Charta, printed in vellum "by an English scribe," one of which was probably executed at the beginning of the fourteenth century. With these newly acquired copies of early English statutes, there was purchased a valuable collection of original prints of the statutes themselves...