Word: help
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Bulletin, and will continue to have charge of the Harvard appointment office. In his new position there is a chance for rendering a new and real service, which should turn out most valuable. Great prospects are open for Harvard University and no spirit is lacking anywhere. The CRIMSON can help chiefly by being the best possible exponent of the opinion of the University...
...anything except victory. The southern trip did much to round our players into form, and after an additional week's practice our men, with one or two exceptions, should be in the best of physical condition. It should prove to be an unusually interesting game, and one which will help us greatly to size up our prospects for the season. We wish the team the luck, which plays such an important part in baseball contests, and assure them of our hearty support and confidence...
Professor Vinogradoff traced the evolution of compromise from self-help, and mentioned its advantages over self-help. He said that compromise comes when revenge is put aside. In cases of compromise, one has to deal with larger forces than the individual. Compromise is obtained by means of the trial, which may be conducted according to the laws of combat, by oath, or by arbitration. In a trial by combat, the opponents settle their differences in the court room. If they happen to be of different sexes, the man is hampered by bonds. In a trial by oaths, the oaths were...
Professor Paul Vinogradoff, professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University, delivered the third of his series of lectures on "The Elements of Law" on the subject of "Self-help," in the Lecture Room of Austin Hall last evening. The next lecture will be given tonight at 8 o'clock on the subject of "Compromise." It will be open to the public...
...Self-help or self-assertion of right, which has not yet entirely disappeared from our systems of law, was a fundamental principle of ancient law. In cases of theft or adultery, an individual was allowed to kill the offender if he could catch him, but if not caught the case had to be referred to trial. Persons who claimed lost property, had the right of taking possession of the property, and justifying their possession afterwards. Ancient law did not depend so much on moral right and claim, as upon the assertion of individual interests...