Word: codes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to comprehend the type of student who has neither regard for property rights nor the code of honour among users of the University Library. Even more does the lack of any sense of value displayed by these Vandals challenge explanation. At its best, this sort of thing is reminiscent of the penciled moustache on the High School statue of Apollo; at its worst it approaches the mentality of the urchin who chalks his meagre store of profanity on fences and telegraph poles...
Finally, the Latin type of governmental Christianity can never suit the northern code of honor. He points to Christ as one who never spoke to the hearts of men en masse, but rather to the inner spirit of each individual. "He banished political methods from His teaching." This individualistic, Protestant type of Christianity, with its adaptability to a modern, scientific and industrial age, is decidedly not a spent force. "This, we may venture to predict, is the Christianity of the future, as it was the first Christianity," declares the Dean, at the end of his very outspoken essay...
...Russian legal code, disrupted by the abolition of private property, and made still more unstable by the recent partial restoration of property rights, is now considered to be incomprehensible to lawyers and Communists alike...
...people of this country," said the Senator from Ohio, "are not against prohibition, but are for it. The 2.75 beer compromise was offered to Ohio, a great industrial state, and was defeated by over 189,000. California in the last election adopted a state code in harmony with the Federal act by a majority of over 30,000, when two years before such a measure was defeated by 65,000. These beer compromise measures have been defeated by referendum votes in Michigan by 207,000; in Arizona, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and other states...
What is the solution? Similar conditions have arisen before in the legal profession and have been solved. The solution has been a new codification of laws. Two great emperors had new codes drawn- Justinian and Napoleon. We have no emperor to do us that service, so the members of the legal profession are taking it upon themselves. They cannot by a stroke of the pen create a uniform code of laws for this country, but they hope, without legislation, to draw up a sort of handbook of legal procedure, to which all lawyers and judges may turn as authority...