Word: law
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intention of studying law should fail to attend the series of conferences inaugurated by the Law Society of Phillips Brooks House. These conferences are intended to acquaint prospective law students with their duties, to give some idea of the proper courses for preparatory work, and to offer an opportunity for meeting Law School men. The first conference will take place tonight at Phillips Brooks House, with addresses by Dean Thayer and Professor Munro. No one who intends to enter this field can afford to miss these meetings...
...first of the series of three conferences inaugurated by the Law School Society of Phillips Brooks House for the benefit of those undergraduates who are contemplating entering the Law School will be held tonight in Phillips Brooks House at 7.30 o'clock...
Dean Thayer will discuss in detail the general problems and the purposes of the meetings, and Professor W. B. Munro will speak on "Law as a Preparation for men intending to enter Public Life...
...view. First, to inform men intending to become lawyers about the demands of the profession, what qualities tend toward success, and what difficulty, expense, and constancy of purpose a thorough training entails; second, to outline the undergraduate course of study most desirable as preparation for work in the Law School; and third, to enable prospective candidates to meet Law School men, and discuss with them the various phases of the work of training for the profession...
...fact that a large proportion of it is committed by boys between the ages of 15 and 20, usually of the second generation of foreigners. This is a new problem, the study of which is just beginning." He emphasized the fact that "we have to work with the law as it is, not as it should be" and said that this was responsible for some of the police graft so often talked about. "The professional criminal must be given the full extent of the law, for if he finds that he can get a shortening of sentence by any influence...