Word: law
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole number of men in the Law School this year is 151, over 153 last year...
...Alexander Hamilton, late of Yale college, has been elected a member of the Thayer Law Club...
...history we find few prominent characters; for the vast majority of men the law of life is oblivion. We belong to the unknown, the unrecorded masses and one epitaph would do for all. This is one great law of man. A second is that the human race, left alone, tends downward. An old proverb says, "The majority are evil." Indeed it is a sad spectacle - the world tending to degradation. The history of the world is a record of degradations and deliverances. The world has fallen and there have come great heroes, agents of the Creator, to raise it again...
...done wonders in the world, in science, art and literature. In the work of life, action has been and is the law. To be faithful, not famous, is the purpose that will make our lives not in vain. Be faithful in the least things. Each grain of sand helps to keep back the ocean. The great heroes are few, only two or three in a million. Our task is to honor and help them. "To you, students of Harvard University, because I shall never see you again, I shall speak these words of hope, encouragement, inspiration. Can you sacrifice pleasure...
...topics of the remaining lectures will be: Nov. 9: The First Golden Days, and the Early Mining Life. Nov. 16: Popular Government and Lynch-Law in the Mines. Nov. 23: Some Aspects of Social Evolution in San Francisco...