Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...methods of procedure in these clubs are unlike those in ordinary trial courts, but resemble the way in which a question is argued before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. An agreed statement of fact is written out and the counsel on either side have to deal merely with the points of law involved by that particular combination of facts. There are no witnesses...
Eight men from a class make up each club. The members of the first year class constitute the superior court, which meets sixteen times during the winter, each member arguing four cases during the term. One counsel is taken for each side of the question, and the other six members of the court hear the arguments. These six members are justices and are presided over by a second-year member of the club, who is called the chief justice. The arguments last about two hours, after which the counsel retire and the court discusses the merits of the case; then...
...nineteenth year. He then entered the Law School from which he graduated in 1845. He began practice in Boston and won a reputation in mercantile insurance and railroad litigation. He had an extended practice before the United States supreme court and in the celebrated Credit-Mobilier case, as counsel for the defendant, he successfully opposed the claim of the national government to recover millions of dollars from the Union Pacific Railroad...
Parents and advisers of young men coming into the University are urged to counsel them to take part in this religious life. Under the voluntary system now accepted in Harvard University, the further development of such interests must proceed chiefly from the influence of the student's homes; and all who are in sympathy with such an undertaking are requested to cooperate with the Preachers to the University...
...objects of the St. Paul's Society as given in the Constitution are as follows: "To bring the Episcopal students of the University into acquaintance with each other; to afford them opportunities of uniting in worship agreeably to the spirit and forms of their church, of giving each other counsel and suport in the performance of Christian duties, and of undertaking missionary work, and by maintaining a Library to give them convenient access to religious literature. Any member of the University who has been baptized and who attends the Protestant Episcopal Church shall be eligible for membership...