Word: laws
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...PROFESSOR of Political Economy and Constitutional Law is to be appointed in the University of Nebraska, with a salary of $1,500. A graduate of Harvard is desired. For information apply at No. 5, University Hall...
...following gentlemen have been elected by the Senior Class of the Law School to prepare Commencement parts: L. D. Brandeis, R. H. Dana, W. B. Gano. H. P. Starbuck, A. S. Thayer, W. H. Tuttle. The Faculty is to decide which one of the parts shall be delivered at Commencement...
Should caricature be discouraged whether by law or public opinion...
...first two classes, though, be it confessed, the Yankee occasionally falls into an opposite error of making the a too broad, the o too confined, and the r utterly inaudible. In his mouth won't, the contraction for will not, becomes wunt. He is apt to call law lor, America Americar, etc., evidently to atone for his almost universal slight to the r in the middle of a word. Roof, root, and room become roof, room, root, etc. The sound he gives to such words as boat, home, comb, throat, spoke, coat, poke, etc., is unlike anything I ever heard...
...longer find the lover addressing his mistress in metaphors, the far-fetchedness of which would put to shame the worst of college puns, nor does he, at the critical moment, lay an exposition of his feelings before the lady, marked by all the elaborateness and ingenuity of a law-argument. The remarks of these chivalric knights on such occasions must have had an effect similar to that produced by a joke when told in ten times as many words as are necessary, and the fair maiden must have felt that all this flowery "gush" was far inferior to the "dumb...