Word: codes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wiliams, L. S., second on the negative said that it is not right to make a prohibitory amendment part and parcel of the Massachusetts constitution, for a constitution is not a code of law or of morality. The principles of every constitution have all been proved successes. The same cannot be said of prohibition. Again, the theory of governments is to leave as much as possible to local bodies; hence if the people of Massacnusetts want prohibition let each separate city council voth for prohibition...
...availability of the plane mirror in practical astronomy has long been known. Prof. Winlock applied it in his experiments is solar photography. French astronomers also have used it in their "equatorial code." The new "horizontal telescope" is a much simpler and less expensive instrument and has the advantage of retaining more light and being no more liable to distortions or variations from changes of temperature than an ordinary reflecting telescope...
...unfortunately, too trite that some men come to college who are unfit to stand alone, and who, therefore, would be palpably assisted by a code of school-boy rules; but it is a gross injustice to put more than a very small minority of college men in this class. The average collegian, though he may fall far short of his responsibility, is yet a better man for having had it imposed upon him, and college is quite late enough to learn of this responsibility. The student with a foundation of manliness cannot, except unjustly, be made to suffer...
...strike a great number of the recent graduates as an unfortunate retrograde movement. During the twenty years, more or less, in which President Eliot has occupied his position, there has been steady progress in the direction of placing greater reliance on the individual student and less upon a vexatious code of rules and penalties...
TUTORING in Philosophy 11and 13; also in German, Latin and Algebra. Instruction given in Law, including Code pleading and practice...