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Under the leadership of Professor Dwight the supreme aim of the Law School, hitherto, has been to fit students for the actual work of law practice. The newer policy, however, condemns this ambition as inadequate, and seeks to expand and remodel the plan of instruction. The idea is to carry out the old object of fitting students to be practicing lawyers, and in addition the advocates of this new plan would have taught at the Law School the theory of law in its highest ranges, as is done in the finest universities of Europe. This expansion and extension of instruction...
...then unanimously passed to the retiring officers. Before the meeting adjourned Lloyd McK. Garrison addressed the club and briefly summed up the work of the past year and the possibilities of the organization for the future. He regretted the fact that the name of the club rather suggested the idea of an organization formed to advance exclusively the cause of free trade than a general reform club based upon the tenets of the advanced wing of the Democratic party. The club showed its intention of holding several meetings during the spring and it is probable that such men as Sherman...
...Costigan '92 continued the debate on the negative. He said that simply paying a man's poll tax was not sufficient to induce him to vote for any particular candidate. He ridiculed the idea that the poll tax was necessarily bad because it came down from feudal time. This qualification adds to the dignity of American citizenship. Its abolition would not diminish bribery but would tend greatly to increase it by increasing the corruption fund of the professional politicians. He thought that the abolition of the poll taxes as a requisite for voting would take away one of the greatest...
...With the idea that opportunity be offered for such a training, we would suggest that the University Glee Club consider seriously the plan to establish a second glee club. The Glee Club, of course, best knows, how it could carry out such a plan. In our athletics it has been found that a second team works admirably. Why should not a second glee club become equally well a capital feeder and training school to the 'Varsity Glee Club...
Bayeux was shown to give an idea of an old Norman town. It is perhaps as little changed as any other. Here is the famous tapestry, a half yard wide and some two hundred long, which Queen Matilda and her maids are said to have worked. It describes the events of William's reign and ends abruptly with the battle of Hastings...