Word: law
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Following the example of the University Law School, the Yale Law School has recently organized a Legal Aid Bureau. Its object is to render legal aid gratuitously to those citizens of New Haven who would not otherwise be able to secure it. As stated in its constitution "The object and purpose of this Bureau shall be to render legal aid gratuitously, to all persons or associations who, by reason of financial embarrassment, or for any other reason may appear worthy thereof...
This is but the first of many such free legal institutions being established in other colleges and universities of this country, of which the Bureau in the University Law School was the first. Their object is to perform a valuable social service by helping to alleviate the position of the poor who have been unlawfully deprived of their liberty or possessions, and to accomplish the best and highest aims of the profession...
...Holt is widely known as editor and owner of "The Independent." He is a member of the executive committee of the New York Peace Society, and a member of the International Conciliation Society, and the American Society of International Law...
...false "insurance" of peace, if our young men understood the financial and commercial pressure back of this agitation, they would treat with the indignation it deserves this wholesale betrayal of the spiritual ideals and forces of America. Force, the "Big Stick," the mailed fist, the iron hand behind the Law and such cant phraseology of the half-baked thinker are running riot in our press today...
...question of the necessity of giving economic aid to the Allies was next considered by the pro side, and the fact that the world is debtor to Germany in art, literature, science and sociology was brought up by those opposed. This premise was granted by the opposition. International law was spoken of as something only for college professors to be acquainted with and not to be thought of by any nation when at war. Several speakers brought up the question of whether personal sympathies should be considered rather than the prestige of American policies. Those in favor of the question...