Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collections from the faculty and the graduate schools are also planned. Abba Schwartz 3L will head the Law School Finance Committee...
...family in the town which bears his grand-father's name, Dalesford, Connecticut. Captain Dale can no longer run his shoe factory at a profit, and his farm produces next to nothing; seventy-four years old, he wishes to liquidate what few assets he has, move his daughter-in-law and grand-daughters to Florida, and spend his last days peacefully in the sun. When he has made his decision, the embodied ghosts of his progenitors appear to dissuade him, and the result is an extremely poignant and delightful first...
This social mess has a particularly un fortunate effect on love: it results in what Spenlove-McFee calls another Gresham's law,* in which good love, i. e., based on mutual class interests, hasn't got a chance. Through Spenlove, a lower middle-class student in "the natural history of the well-to-do," Author McFee has a direct mouthpiece for his ironic reflections on the state of the U. S. rich (whose uneasiness, one gathers, serves them right...
...Cessante ratione, cessat ipsa lex" is a learned and Latin way of saying that when the reason for a law ceases to exist, the law itself dies with it. And to a distinguished professor up at the Law School, this little tag strikes at the very root of the legal system. In fact, it is reliably reported that this jurist injects the quotation at least four times into each of the profound and erudite dissertations he hurls at his disciples Mondays through Thursdays...
...recent Monday, however, the man of law delivered himself of a monologue that was at once scintillating and side-splitting, leaving his class a little puzzled till they found the reason, an anonymous poem left on the professor's desk just before the lecture...