Word: law
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Legal Aid Bureau is an organization made up of second and third year Law School men, who lend their service entirely free of charge to those who apply. The expenses of the organization are defrayed by voluntary contribution. The officers and members of the Bureau for this year are: G. B. Barrett 3L, president; W. B. Shepardson 3L, vice-president; A. E. Case 3L, secretary-treasurer' W. B. Hastings 2L, M. Rushton 3L and C. W. Painter 2L, directors; B. I. Bromley, G. G. Chandler, L. Clayton, J. France, J. F. Gunster, M. M. Manning, S. Miller...
Some of the greatest men of history have mistaken their vocations and found their true work only after false starts. Goethe began to study for the law and schiller spent some years as any army surgeon. Sir Francis Bacon believed that his fame would rest of his career as a lawyer and statesman. Bourne-Jones did not begin to paint until he was nearly thirty years old. In our own time we have seen Mr. Booth Tarkington who aspired to be an artist emerge as one of the leading American authors...
President Lowell's investigation into the records of students in the professional schools of Law and Medicine show an amazingly close correspondence between distinctions gained in college and those later attained in the professional schools. Professor Hollingsworth's recent book on "Vocational Psychology" summarizes some interesting data obtained by other investigators. One of these, Nicholson, took the records of 1,667 graduates of Wesleyan University and arranged them in three groups as follows: 140 men who were valedictorians or salutatorians of their classes, 461 men who were members of Phi Beta Kappa and the remaining 1,066 who had attained...
...charge of the aviation training schools established by the government under the new Reserve Officers' Training Corps Act, will come to Cambridge during the latter part of the month to speak to all members of the University who are interested in flying. According to the new law applications may be made for enrolment at one of the present training schools, and the applicant, if accepted, will undergo six months training at the expense of the government at the end of which time he will be commissioned as a first lieutenant in the aviation reserve. Commissions will be given...
...force. The experience of the work has shown that when any authority is set up backed by force men cease to carry arms, but are ready, if necessary to support those to whom force is entrusted. The time has come when we must put force behind international law as we do behind every other kind of law that is obeyed...