Word: lawful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee appointed at the meeting of the second-year class of the Law School Tuesday afternoon to take action on the death of G. W. Brechbill, present the following...
...opened the debate for the negative. The alternative, he said, is between prohibition and nine-tenths prohibition, for nine-tenths prohibition is the present condition of Massachusetts. There are numerous objections to the adoption of the prohibitory amendment, viz, it would be unconstitutional and degrading, and a prohibitory law could not work where there is no local option. Such an amendment would then be a farce, as Rhode Island and many other states can testify...
...Wiliams, L. S., second on the negative said that it is not right to make a prohibitory amendment part and parcel of the Massachusetts constitution, for a constitution is not a code of law or of morality. The principles of every constitution have all been proved successes. The same cannot be said of prohibition. Again, the theory of governments is to leave as much as possible to local bodies; hence if the people of Massacnusetts want prohibition let each separate city council voth for prohibition...
Little outside of study is at present exciting the minds of the Law School men and every hour of the day finds the library crowded with hard working students...
...interest that a short time ago was awakened by the report that a Law School crew was being formed has now entirely died out, and since it was decided not to allow the crew to enter in the class races, nothing has been done to keep up the organization...