Word: law
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Roman Law...
...Harriman delivered the opening speech on the affirmative. Mr. Cleveland is entirely right, said he, in persisting in his steady opposition to the extravagant pension grants of our national Congress. We are liberal enough with our pensions already. Had the Dependent Pension bill become a law, it would have taken at least $50,000,000 out of the national treasury, and increased our total pension list to over one hundred millions. We should have been taxed as heavily for this purpose as are many of the countries of Europe which have to support large standing armies. Many of our most...
...hours in the various courses having laboratory work. Neither in the elective pamphlet, nor in the catalogue, nor in many of the special descriptive pamphlets, are the number of hours to be found. The only way to find out is to hunt up the instructor, who, by some natural law that we do not understand, is usually out in such circumstances, especially at the beginning and end of the year, when one wants information most. One might naturally suppose, for instance, that Chemistry 3 occupied three hours a week instead of between eight and twelve, of which no mention...
...even to the extent of binding the professors by oath not to teach elsewhere but in Bologna. The extortions and injustice to the students at last brought about voluntary associations based on geographical lines, which ultimately became the University of Bologna. The mediaeval conception of universitas is the civil law idea of corporation, college, corps, i. e., a juristic personality. The thirty-five or forty student-organizations called nations had acquired corporate rights at the end of the 12th century. The University of Bologna as an institution of learning is known as studium (sc., generale) Bononie. There were down...
...PENNANT.The pennant given to the class which wins the most events was awarded once more to '87, with a record of thirteen first prizes. '89 was second, with four firsts; '90 and the Law School each won two events while '88 came off with the tug-of-war as her only success...