Word: laws
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...forget the germ of truth in the writer's remarks, though greatly exaggerated and wrongly interpreted. There is an excess of vice in our College above the average of society at large. But if this fact be co-ordinated with other facts, thereby exhibiting a uniformity or law of nature, our author is disclosed as uttering a somewhat futile protest against some such matter as the tendency of profits to a minimum or the increase of insanity with increasing complexity of society. Of late the class of facts in question has undergone examination, resulting in the following generalization, applying...
EVER since the beginning of things, the fact that one kind of food is best for the body and another best for the mind has been universally known and acted upon. That this law, however, could be further extended, and applied to the differentiation of intellectual qualities and capacities, no one seems to have imagined. That it can be thus applied I hope to prove...
...universal law that in all progress the development is from a homogeneous simplicity of construction to a heterogeneous complexity. Applying this to the evolution of an intellectual society, it is evident that, with the march of enlightenment, thinkers must both become more trained in mind and more specially and diversely educated. The place of the general lawyer is now filled by the marine lawyer, the criminal lawyer, the trust lawyer, and many others. But the growth of Harvard within the last few years has been rather to discourage special attention to any one study, and to tempt the student...
...Faculty of the Yale Law School have introduced the marking system. The Courant speaks of the present privileges of Harvard Seniors, and regrets the indefinite postponement at Yale of "the experiment of appealing to the students' independence and exciting their enthusiasm for intellectual pursuits for their own sakes...
...will be seen that, as has been the case with the classes for several years past, the "probabilities" give a larger number to law than to any other one of the occupations named. A comparison of the average age of this class with that of other classes shows this to be the youngest class that has graduated in five years...