Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editorial page is spoiled by a series of editorials on the name and reception of the paper. From these editorials we learn that Quip is "a girl," and from this infer that the central figure on the title page is a portrait of the fair daughter-in-law of Life. We think the editors should have adopted the name suggested in the last editorial, the Yale Brace, as indicating the decided need of the paper. The first picture (on page 5) is enough to spoil any paper, and the joke (?) attached reminds us in its lucidity of some...
...obscurity rests over the earliest history of the Edinburgh foundation, but a positive date is reached, April 24, 1852, when King James VI. signed a charter giving power to the town council of Edinburgh to provide for higher education in humanity and in the tongues, in philosophy, theology, medicine, law and other liberal sciences. Thus, "the municipal authorities and clergy of Edinburgh were entrusted forever with the absolute control of higher education within the Burgh." On the 16th of October, 1583, the magistrates of Edinburgh appointed a committee to devise the order of teaching to be kept in the college...
...every one of the larger American cities can make it such ; still it is, like all Mr. James' work, clever. Mrs. Van Rensselaer's article on "Recent Architecture in America," is very interesting ; the article has little but praise for the new Harvard Medical School, Sever Hall and the Law School. Mr. Hawthorne's article on the Salem of his father is interesting alike from its subject and its writer, who promises us further articles about Hawthorne in Concord, Boston, and Brook Farm. Altogether, the allow us to speak of them in detail ; we can hardly...
results in the lives of personal acquaintances. The most brilliant men in several fields whom he ever knew-in law, mathematics, architecture, mercantile life, oratory,-all fell victims to this curse, and by it lost their lives...
Dartmouth is to have a new chapel at a cost of $30,000, and a library at a cost of $50,000. The latter building is to be absolutely fire-proof and will have a capacity of 120,000 volumes. The project of building a law school has not yet been decided upon...