Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...effort is being made at Washington, to pass a law reducing the postage on all college catalogues and publications, together with those of missionary societies, to the pound rate, making it about one sixth of the present cost. - Yale News...
...great principles of commercial life is to avoid as far as possible all competition; but the ranks of all the professions, from law to medicine, and to the ministry, are so well filled, in this country, that it takes an exceptionally gifted man to raise himself above the average. The lawyer who must spend all his time in defending clients, in order to support himself and his family, cannot fairly be called upon to make a step toward rectifying the errors and faults of the law which are growing more numerous every day. The consequence is, and always has been...
...number of courses in History and Political Economy from which he can make his selection, there is one branch of the subject which is ignored here, but which at Yale, at Columbia, at University of Pennsylvania, and at University of Michigan receives considerable attention. This subject is termed, "Municipal Law" at Yale, and "Mercantile Law" at University of Pennsylvania...
Municipal Law consists of lectures on the origin, history and general principles of the Common Law based on the treatises of Robinson and others...
Mercantile Law at University of Pennsylvania covers the usages and methods of business, the management of property and the administration of trusts and is supplemented by an exposition of the leading principles of the Common Law. The text book is Parson's Laws of Business. Both Columbia and University of Michigan give similar courses. Why the faculty here have not introduced an elective to cover this subject pursued in other colleges, when the beast of Harvard has been always to take the lead in political science, as a matter of deep concern. Of the advantages of such a course...