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...number of the Law Review, which will be issued Monday, contains the following articles: History of the Hearsay Rule," by Professor John H. Wigmore of Northwestern University; "Accord and Satisfaction," by Professor Samuel Williston '82, of the Law School; "The Merger Decision," by Professor J. C. Gray '59, also of the Law School...
...have been through Harvard College and are thus debarred would be great. They are bona fide Harvard men--the men in general the best and most reliable on a team. The records of these men are known; the records of graduate students from other colleges depends only on hearsay or on the testimonies of other athletic authorities often having dissimilar standards to our own. The reasons making advisable the disbarment of these latter men would not apply to the first...
...last Graduates' Magazine, under the heading of "A New Kind of Disloyalty." I must protest emphatically against the spirit in which that was written. The writer, under cover of the name of a department, directs a savage attack against persons about whom he evidently knows nothing, except possibly by hearsay, and about whom he never will know anything until he leaves the window-seat which he is supposed to occupy, and comes down to the ground of common-sense. In the first place, by no means all of the Boston papers pay their correspondents by space-rates. I can mention...
...hundred and fifty and twenty-nine are not number that are easily confused. Such a rumor never could have gained ground if students had refused to take hearsay for truth. The immense damage which this rumor might do to the college can readily be seen and it seems to us that, before such reports are spread, their accuracy should be tested. The Dean is anxious that, in such matters, the students should come to headquarters, and the reasonableness of the request is guarantee that it will be complied with. So much every undergraduate owes to the maintenance of Harvard...
...true at the present day. One should put his belief to the test at times, to see if it satisfies his ideas. Religious truth is unlike all other truths. A mathematical truth is proved by a set of fixed rules. Legal or historical truths are governed only by hearsay. Religious truth, however, is proved by intellect and reasoning. Its foundation is in its appeal to our sentiment of love. It springs from the best there is in us. Our hearts and souls, alone, can satisfy us of its truth...