Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...begins to specialize, he inevitably comes into contact with the leading men in his department. Yet it is true and is to be regretted that a man may never form the intimate friendly relations with his professors that men often form in small colleges and which were so common in the early days of Harvard...
...common contentious attitude of counsel in a lawsuit, and the common attitude of the judge as the umpire in a game, have done much to discredit the administration of justice in the United States. Counsel do not seem to the American public to be officers of a court seeking for truth and justice, but players of an unethical, intellectual game. The judge seems to regard himself--often perforce as a mere umpire between contending parties, and not as an agent of the commonwealth to settle controversies on their merits. The American public has lost some of its old faith...
There will be a meeting of all candidates for the University lacrosse team in Thayer Common Room this evening at 7.30 o'clock to discuss preliminary training for the ensuing season. The hard games at the beginning of the schedule, especially those during the southern trip early in April, necessitate an immediate start...
...Meeting of lacrosse candidates in Thayer Common Room...
Among the purchases are manuscripts and volumes written by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert (1470-1538), an English jurist who served as Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for many years. The copy of his "Natura Breviu," is a sound and perfect copy (1519) which is said to be very rare. Besides this volume, there are: five samples of the work of Sir John Fortescue (1394-1476), an English lawyer who sat on the Chief Justice's bench in the King's Court in 1442; many copies of tenures written by Sir Thomas de Littleton (1407-1481), an English and legal...