Word: law
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more laudable action could have been hoped for than that taken by the Faculty of the Law School yesterday. All men in the Law School can now feel free to enter any arm of the service without losing credit for the work completed so far. With this last patriotic decision Harvard University is able to come forward as a unite to the service of the nation. It is no little sacrifice that the law student is making who gives up the study of a serious profession for the life of a soldier or sailor. The Law School authorities have done...
...finds the incentive toward service in the regular military establishment or in the militia somewhat weaker than the incentive to take his ease, avoiding all discipline. The country's need that he shall know how to defend it is not brought to his attention. If, however, there were a law requiring his service with the colors for a given time at a particular period of his life, he would perform the service as a matter of course, as he accepts the fact of compulsory education in more conventional but not more important branches of learning. --Cleveland Daily News...
...Law School alone offers no opportunity for its students to conclude their year of study and to go at once into training. It is true that the study of law is such that it may not readily be broken off or curtailed. It is true that a lawyer's training does not fit him primarily, as does a doctor's, for military service. Yet those men who are studying law are competent by their character and ability, if not by their training, for military service. Their country needs their services. They are surely no less willing to fulfill their duty...
Those men who end their study of law now may not be so wise in precedent as those who continue the logical courses of their careers. But they will be partisans of a higher law, pleading before a court of last appeals for the cause of liberty. They will be less skilled jurists. They will be no less good lawyers...
Forty new books contained in the 1917 spring publication list of the University Press which will be issued today. These volumes deal with a great range of subjects including history and political science, economics, social science, education, law, classics, English, comparative literature, fine arts, architecture, chemistry, engineering, forestry, medicine, physics, philosophy, theology, and religion. Among the most notable authors on the list are Dean Edwin F. Gay, of the Graduate School of Business Administration; Professor Charles Dourier Hazen, of Columbia University; William Roscoe Thayer '81, a member of the Board of Overseers; Robert Howard Lord '06, Assistant Professor of History...