Word: law
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- Would it not be proper to suggest to the faculty the need of a course that would treat on the history and development of the Common Law? In short, that the study of Blackstone's Commentaries be catalogued under the subject of History for the next year? The course would not only prove valuable, but popular, and would be pursued, not only by those who are preparing for the Law School, but by others who would take it as the finish to their legal political education...
...which the manager of the nine will attempt to abate. He proposes to hire a special police officer to look after the grounds, and in case the muckers do not keep away, to have a few of them arrested each day and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, for trespassing on private property...
...interested stranger will find nothing to attract his attention in the exterior of the house, unless it be the care with which that sanitary law has been observed, which demands that the cold air box to the furnace shall have its mouth at least three feet above the ground, and covered with a wire screen. There are few visitors; perhaps because the students hesitate to take their friends to the rooms, lest they intrude upon the privacy of the family whose home it is. If you enter, you find, on the left, a parlor which is used occasionally...
...historical and to the admirers of the eminent poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes; but, notwithstanding, it had to be made. Architectural effect, modern improvement, in a word, progress, know no sentiment, and never ask what a thing has been but what it is. To the builders and designers of the Law School (Austin Hall) the Holmes house was an obstruction, an eye-sore; and, therefore, the Holmes house had to go. Yet, it must be confessed, the building of Austin Hall was unquestionably the most prominent improvement in all the alterations on Holmes. No building was as much needed...
Next in prominence to the Law School comes the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, which was a most important and most valuable addition to the University. Very carefully constructed and very thoroughly planned for extended physical construction, it is destined to give a new vigor to the study of the natural sciences here, that must some day make Harvard one of the centres of physical learning, which Harvard can not be said to have been heretofore...