Word: laws
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Boston papers, that the Law School of Boston University has in training a crew which intends in the spring to challenge a crew from our Law School...
There is one point in the book which is positively disgraceful, and on which the writer is especially severe, and that is, the insertion of advertisements in the body of the book, and the printing of one on the back of a page devoted to the societies of the Law School. If the editors intended it as a directory of tradesmen, then this insertion of advertisements is perfectly proper; but as the ostensible purpose of the book is to afford students information regarding societies, etc., it is as unpardonable as it is unnecessary...
...College Journal says that the judges of the Philadelphia courts have established a rule, admitting to the bar without examination all graduates of the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania. The same paper has a long editorial about Carlyle's supposed refusal of the honorary degree offered him by Harvard. Its moralization, and its aphorisms about "toadyism," are extremely amusing. The subject is treated with a gravity which reminds one of the discussion of the Cardiff Giant in recent English periodicals...
...Simpson, you cannot go to work this morning, your mother-in-law is dead...
When therefore there are combined with these objections the annoyances necessarily attendant on a convention, the members of which devote their time to quibbles about parliamentary law, which almost loses sight of the advantages of the race in the clouds of many rows and disputes, and in connection with which there is a necessary outlay of money and time that might as well, and had better be saved, certainly no one can question the claim that Harvard has fair grounds for withdrawing from the Association. But when it is added that Harvard and Yale, although having greater numbers of students...