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Harvard College has been accused of any things, but it doesn't intend to be labeled a bad lodging-house keeper. Particularly if the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is doing the labeling...
...argued over what to do about the independence demands of India, Burma and Ceylon, Attlee broke in with his answer: get out. His decision to depart rather than delay avoided ugly anti-British insurrections and enabled him to incorporate all of the former Asian possessions except Burma into the Commonwealth. The cold war, however, put a chill on many of Attlee's plans. He diverted welfare funds to armaments to help block the Soviet threat in Europe, joined NATO, and ordered British scientists to develop a British nuclear deterrent. When the U.S. went to war in Korea to resist...
...City Manager also appeared in the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth yesterday to try to get a hearing set for the City's appeal from the Superior Court ruling that the CNCV petition was a fit subject for an initiative petition...
...likely, but was not certain last night, that the City will appeal the decision to the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth. In all probability, the City Council will not adopt the antiwar resolution, since only last week it sent a similar petition to a death in committee...
...record would have been hard to predict back in the fall of 1817, when the school was founded with six students and one professor. In fact, as late as 1870, the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray was saying that Harvard Law was "almost a disgrace to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." That year, however, things changed. Christopher Langdell became dean, and he brought with him the case method-the innovative inspiration that has been the cornerstone of legal education ever since. He viewed the law as a science, with a series of progressively dependent rules. These rules were based...