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...Docket, a periodical that circulates among members of the bar, points out that Washington, D. C., has (in proportion to its population) more lawyers than any state in the Union, there being one to every 181 persons there. Excepting D. C., lawyers are most plentifully assembled on and near the Pacific Coast. Nevada (with reason) has a lawyer for every 337 people. California, for every 507; Oregon, for every 550; Washington, for every 606. The lower South has fewest lawyers. And Pennsylvania has none too many, with a ratio of one to 1,285. All the lawyers in the country...
...preliminaries of the final and greatest case on the Harvard 1922 football docket were concluded yesterday with a parade that even surpassed the "record-breaker" mass meeting. Never have more Harvard men marched to Soldiers Field to cheer a football team in its last practice. The briefs, "We are going to win" and "We'll beat Yale" reflect unmistakably the attitude in Cambridge. And every Harvard man who is going to witness the trial tomorrow will support the team with the same conviction...
...committee will receive petitions up to the closing of the docket of the Massachusetts Legislature toward the end of January from any member of the University with regard to presenting bills on any subject. The first meeting of the committee will be held on December 7 at a place to be announced later. Petitions to be discussed at this meeting must be mailed, addressed to the committee, Box 84, at least a week before the meeting, with the signed statement that the petitioner will appear and argue for the bill at the session...
...most pleasant feature of Harvard life, are becoming so popular that only a small number of those in attendance are able to meet and converse with the ever cordial host. Here certainly is need for reform. The lists at the office must be getting as long as the docket of the U. S. Supreme Court at Washington, and it is probable that soon the man with an invitation to U. 5 will have as much difficulty in getting advantage from it, as the poor plaintiff has in bringing his case to trial. Aside from the evils of postponement, another evil...
...Prime Minister is appointed by the Speaker of the House, and selects two collegians, Secretaries of House and Foreign Affairs respectively. The minstry thus constituted are charged with the government of the House, and propose questions in the form of bills, which are placed by the clerk upon the docket in the order of their presentation. On the refusal of the House to pass such a bill, if the measure is of a political nature, the ministry resign. They can also be deposed by a direct vote of censure, and hold office simply at the will of the House, irrespective...