Word: laws
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THAYER CLUB. - President, R. H. Dana, Law School; Vice-President, no choice; Directors, H. S. Milton, '75; J. C. Lane, '75; F. E. Chase, '76; W. M. Bradley, '76; G. S. Sykes, '77; A. C. Tower, '77; C. H. Vinton, '78; C. H. Wiswell...
...religion more than in science. It might have been hoped that our author would grant us a faith somewhat purer and stronger than that of the worshippers of Ahura-Mazda, but he tells us, "a godless world implies a worldless God." Yet Professor Everett believes "in the great law of progress in the world of life," and this because the very elements of life we have been examining contain the conditions for advance. We have not recognized this before, because we have been comparing a fragment of the present with the whole of the past...
...full than was possible in any other age. Agassiz, the child of both continents, who found the objects of his study wherever life exists, still saw the world guided and sustained by a loving God; Sumner, familiar by his learning with all past civilizations, saw in them a law of freedom for all men, which he tried to apply in his own century. Both stand as "symbols of the true use, - the use which will one day be made of the materials which this age is accumulating," when "every detail of science shall add to the glory of the ideal...
Rather disconcerted at the untimely ending of my period, a thing I rather pride myself on in conversation, I suggested that law-pills would be improved if they were previously to receive a little Continental gilding...
...energy of youth," remarked Tom, "should not be frittered away in travel. Earnest study and application to the great principles of law should be our only occupation. Look at Charles Sumner and Andrew Johnson and-and Thoreau-and Margaret Fuller and Bayard Taylor and-and all our great statesmen who distinguished themselves by ordering executions-that is, by executing orders-with promptness and despatch. And our fair Boston maidens value a man for what he is worth, I mean not his income, but in-themes, and the calculus, and all that kind of thing,-not French polish,-in short, graduates...