Word: laws
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...law or the ministry may have charms for me. In either case, dead Latin and Greek are better than living English, German, and French to inspire me for future work...
Obeying the same sweet law...
...belong to that school), which is large, and comparatively few in it are graduates of any college; while we have only a small number in the Lawrence S. S., a large part of whom are graduates. But nothing prevents us from placing in our crew men from our Medical, Law, or Divinity Schools who have never taken a degree, and there must be some in them who are men of sterling merit. At present the number of rowing men in them is small, because they have had no inducement to row; but another year, we are confident, will give...
...most natural course, then, to ask that the State shall assume this burden, which is a comparatively light one when we consider the sums annually wasted in corrupt and useless schemes. We are happy to say that the Legislature, although the same body that passed the prohibitory law and refused to annul the Sumner resolutions, took a sensible view of this matter at least, and granted $ 50,000 to the Museum...
...present the only places where degrees can be got in Ireland are the Queen's University and Trinity College, Dublin. In neither of them is there now any requirement which students must fulfil in order to be matriculated, though at Trinity there used to be a law that only those who had signed the "Thirty-nine Articles" should have a scholarship or even a degree. Gladstone's bill would have made legal what has hitherto been granted to Roman Catholics and Non-Conformists only by sufferance and custom. But this measure, though approved by the liberal and thoughtful...