Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...principle, not as a mere aggregation of cases. To accomplish this, the student commits to memory from day to day suitable portions of a treatise upon some particular legal topic written by an expert on the subject. The professor then seeks, from his own experience and learning, to explain whatever difficulties may have been encountered in the study of the treatise. In place of this method the Columbia faculty has introduced a system which resembles more closely that of the Harvard Law School. The student is put at once to the study of cases and is left to deduce...
Semitic Museum. Professor Lyon will be in attendance, 3-5 p. m., to explain the collections to students and other visitors...
Semitic Museum. Professor Lyon will be in attendance, 3-5 p. m., to explain the collections to students and other visitors...
...failed to visit the new Semitic Museum should certainly go there while Professor Lyon is in attendance to explain the various collections. On the left as one enters is a series of large relieves representing different scenes in the life of Assurnazirpal, king of Assyria from 883-859 B. C. In the first the king is seated by the sacred tree, holding aloft in adoration of the gods, the sacred cone. He next appears in a hunting scene. As a priest performing the rites of sacrifice, he is represented with wings showing the tendency of the Assyrians to associate their...
Semitic Museum. Proessor Lyon will be in attendance, 3-5 p. m., to explain the collections to students and other visitors...