Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first year. The ball, however, had now been set a rolling, and from this time on, college journalism grew with amazing rapidity. If today every paper, which has ever been published by students in our American colleges, were in existence, the number would astonish the most credulous. But the law of Malthus operates just as effectively in the domain of literary effort, as it does in the material world about us; there has always been a tendency for college papers to increase faster than the means of subsistence-financial difficulties have brought their careers to a close, often with considerable...
...Ames-Gray law club holds its moot-courts every Monday evening...
...Master's within two years and a half after entering the school. The degree of Ph. D. may be given two years after the Bachelor's degree. A list of 32 courses is given under the heads of History, Economic Science, Political Ethics, Constitutional, Administrative and International Law and Social and Sanitary Sciences; from this the student can select his course. The seminary method is largely used in many of the courses, and in addition there is a Political Science Association divided into five sections (Historical, Economic, Administrative, Pedagogic and Scientific) for voluntary work and the benefits of mutual stimulus...
...Diplomatic, Economic and Financial, and the General Section. The latter department would doubtless be of most value to the American student, as the aim of the others is more confined, being chiefly directed to fit for the civic and diplomatic service of France. In this section, devoted to Public Law and History, the instruction includes: Comparative Civil Legislation, (by Prof. Flach); Constitutional Law of France, England and the U. S. (M. Boutney, member of the Institute); Study of the Constitutions of Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy, (Lebon); Parliamentary History of France since 1780, (Messrs, Ribot and Charmes...
...Paris, it will be seen. is largely to give what may be called professional instruction. Johns Hopkins aims at original scientific investigation. Harvard holds to the old method of direct instruction, (with unimportant exceptions), in non-professional lines. There are no courses at Harvard, we believe, in Administrative Law, in the History of Political Theories, (slightly touched on in Phil 5 and Greek 8), or practically in Social Science. The instruction in Several other branches is also inferior in extent to that at these schools. The aim of Harvard in this matter, we believe, is to secure exact scholarship, rather...