Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...supplement, by courses in public law and comparative jurisprudence, the instruction in private municipal law offered by the School of Law...
...purpose of the school is to give a complete general view of all the subjects, both of internal and external public polity, from the threefold stand point of history, law and philosophy. Its prime aim is therefore the development of all the branches of the political sciences. Its secondary and practical objects...
...offers a course of three year's study, consisting of fifteen hours a week the first year, ten hours the second year, and twelve the third. Its courses in a general way cover those given here in history, political economy and Roman law, besides some of the more general law school courses. In addition, instruction is offered in physical and political geography, ethnography, philosophy; history of political theories from Plato to Hegel, bibliography of the political sciences, political history of the state of New York, modern Roman law, comparative constitutional law of the several commonwealths of the American Union, Latin...
...their work. Every effort to raise the standard of the Scientific School nearer to the level of such institutions as the Institute of Technology, the School of Mines, or the Stevens Institute, is to be praised and encouraged. Our university attracts students from all over the country to its Law and Medical Schools, and we may expect that its Scientific School will some day possess an equally great attraction...
Probably the most marked change in college discipline has come in the matter of personal direction which was then supposed to take the place of parental discipline. One of the many rules laid down was that every undergraduate must wear a black coat on Sundays. Disobedience to this law incurred nearly the same punishment as drunkenness or any of the other capital crimes. The narrator remembers a circumstance in connection with the rule which is worth repeating. One of his friends, a quiet and studious young man, not knowing the regulation, had provided himself before entering college with a Sunday...