Word: law
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Law School nominates Senator Bayard for the Presidency...
...University at present offers to its students what is called a liberal education. The departments of instruction are so varied that one can either dip lightly into many subjects, or make himself proficient in a specialty. The student who intends to read law can lay a foundation in history and logic; the future doctor can ground himself in chemistry and science. But to the business man no such opportunities are offered; the work that he does here cannot be said to fit him for commerce or banking, in more than a general way. It is profitable, as all learning...
...Law students are of course members of the University, and therefore have a perfect right to obtain their meals at Memorial. But have a certain number of them a right to impose upon their table companions their arguments, reaching nearly to quarrels sometimes, and their discussions, carried on in a high voice, so high as to command the attention of all those sitting at their table and even of many who sit at neighboring tables? Their language, and also their subjects for discussion, are often objectionable to many who sit near them...
...law of the State indeed upholds their freedom of speech and their selections for discussion, but do the laws of politeness sustain them also...
MENTION has already been made of the loss to the Crew occasioned by the withdrawal of Mr. Frank Peabody from the Law School. His departure merits more than a passing notice, for his absence will be felt not merely by the Crew itself, but in all our rowing interests. The value of Mr. Peabody's work last year, not only in his capacity of a first-rate oarsman, but in his coaching, and in his readiness to lend his experience and time to whatever helped to raise the standard of rowing, cannot be too strongly emphasized; and it is hardly...