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...training given in the Harvard Law School is especially valuable because of the independent atmosphere of the Massachusetts judiciary. Here, too, law and equity exist side by side instead of the codes of other states which fuse the two. The United States courts, however, have a large equity practice, and, as most of the important cases are tried in these courts, a knowledge of equity is almost indispensable...
...Virginia Military Institute, Thursday night by the explosion of 500 pounds of powder in the magazine, windows in the barracks and the houses of the professors were shattered, and the structures themselves shaken to their foundations. It is supposed the powder was fired last night by a slow fuse applied by a cadet. For some time the cadets have amused themselves by firing off bombs and other explosives about the grounds of the institute. On Tuesday last five students were dismissed for having 90 pounds of powder in their possession. The case has been turned over to the commonwealth...