Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tuesday evening President Eliot addressed a large audience of the members of the Harvard Finance Club on the finances of the university. He began his remarks by calling attention to the fact that the accounts of the college are regularly published, although the law does not require this. Among other advantages, it tends to encourage large bequests to the college. Mr. Bussey left a certain amount of real estate to the college with the provision that it should never be sold. It amounts to about half a million of dollars. It is an advantage as a rule for a benefactor...
...year 1883-84 the Law School had a deficit of $412.86. In such cases the college advances the necessary funds for the temporary support of the department. This was the case with the Observatory, which did not repay the outlay made upon it at first, although this has since been made up by handsome endowments, especially the endowment made by Uriah Boyden...
...their studies from the first to last may form a rationally connected whole." This is excellent advice, but it is to be feared that not all students are in a state of mind to profit by it. Special advice is given to those intending to study engineering, medicine, or law as to the courses most advisable for them to pursue in college, but the purposes of most students are indefinite or unformed, and those of others are liable to change. In spite of all restrictions, suggestions, and advice, one is impressed with the great liability of students to misdirect their...
...Penal Laws' of this early code are rigorous in the extreme, covering twenty-four sections of one chapter. This is in marked contrast to the present spirit which has not excluded the mention of a penalty in connection with any particular irregularity. A student masquerading "in woman's apparel" was liable to expulsion. "If any scholar unnecessarily frequents taverns." "profanely curse, swear," "play at cards or dice" he was liable to a fine for a fresh offence and to all the terrors of the law for continuance in his misdemeanor. "No person of what degree soever residing in the college...
...twelve hours out of fifteen, senior year, in class-room exercises, the rest being prescribed, and consisting mainly of physical science and philosophy. The elective courses from which choice may be made are ninety-two in number, arranged in seven departments - Mental and Moral Science, Political Science and Law, History, Modern Languages, Ancient Languages and Linguistics, Natural and Physical Science and Mathematics...