Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When Sir Robert Peel tried to abolish the Tory Common Laws, Disraeli opposed him as leader of that party. In that capacity, he succeeded in attaining his goal,--the prime ministership. After the passage of the Reform Bill, his party went out of power. But the year 1874 again found him prime minister, this time as the one who should develop the Imperialist policy. Yet, in spite of his apparent vacillation, he was never suspected of outright unscrupulousness, gaining as a leader both power and respect, and adding many new territories to the English Empire...
Professor Roscoe Pound, of the University Law School, will commence a series of lectures on "The Spirit of the Common Law" at the Lowell Institute, Huntington Hall, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock, the series to consist of eight lectures coming on Mondays and Thursdays. The subject tonight will be "Feudal Law." Professor Pound graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1888, studied law at Harvard in 1889 and 1890, and returned to Nebraska to take the degree of Ph.D. in 1897. In 1910 he was called to a professorship in the University Law School...
Professor C. Snouck Hurgronje, of the University of Leyden, Holland, will give the second lecture of his series on "Mohammedanism" at the Lowell Institute this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The special topic this afternoon will be "Features Common to Mohammedanism and Modern Thought...
...Lowell Institute Lecture. "Mohammedanism. II. Features Common to Mohammedanism and Modern Thought," by Professor C. S. Hurgronje...
...Lowell Institute Lecture. "The Spirit of the Common Law. I. Feudal Law," by Professor Roscoe Pound...