Word: laws
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...History and geography (including politics and general biography) is sufficiently indicated by its title, but it should be explained that biographies of artists should be looked for under fine arts, of astronomers under science, etc.; genealogios and heraldry fall here, as well as legislation and constitutional and international law. Under (8) Law and sociology appear statistics, commerce, finance, political economy, jurisprudence, reforms, charities, education, public morality and hygiene, and public works, together with manners and customs, sports and games. (9) Philology embraces all departments, not only of language, but also of classical and oriental studies, excepting such as more properly...
...Roman Law...
...letters to the graduates with a good deal of success in raising the money for the new courts. As soon as the mid-years have ended, the college will be canvassed for subscriptions. While several gentlemen have volunteered to help in their especial societies, and Mr. Denniston in the Law School, the following men have been regularly appointed collectors: Messrs. Peirson and Presbrey, '85; Bradley and Taylor, '86; Tilton and Rhinelander, '87, Hopkins and Bohlin...
...Athens, to give a course of lectures on the "Diplomatic and Consular System of the United States." The lectures are given in connection with the department of History and Political Science. The lectures are intended to be supplementary to the course already given in the University on International Law and History, and to aid in training men for positions in the service. Cornell thus takes the initiative in fitting men for the diplomatic service...
...will therefore stop, and a larger authority be given the executive. A rigid constitution is an absolute necessity in a federation ; but a semi-international compact of England and her colonies had better be effected by a British Statute. The benefits of a flexible constitution, a more developed common law, temperate habits of compromise, etc., are shared only by the small ruling class ; thus the new voters in England, though teachable, will be ignorant. What is the effect of living under a rigid constitution ? In America the constitution is found in every house and taught in every school...