Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...likely to be hotably increased. It is an interesting fact that the University of Virginia must be regarded as the mother of the elective system in this country. From its foundation the students have been allowed entire freedom of choice in their studies, and except in the schools of law and medicine, there is essentially no prescribed course. The university is also open to all comers without the formality of examination; the rigorous mid-term and final lests being relied upon to keep the scasses weeded. It is another singular feature of the regime that, save the long summer intermission...
...general progression in nature. The theory that the world was once a vapor from which the earth evolved is not consistent with the scriptures, for they speak of its being 'void without form.' The natural struggles for existence lead to the survival of the fittest, a most benevolent law, and also in accordance with the Scriptures. Man is so constituted with the faculties that God has given him that he learns by experience. Without order, of what benefit would experience be ? Evolution teaches that the present comes out of the past and goes down to the future. Evolution but shows...
...subject upon which the Seniors in the Yale Law School, who compete for the Townsend prize of $100 must write, are as follows : 1. "Regulation of Inter-State Commerce." 2. "Strikes." 3. "Recent Decision of the Supreme Court on the Civil Rights Bill." 4. "Government Control of Telegraph." The graduating theses must be written upon the following subjects : 1. "Development of the Law of mortgages." 2. "Estoppel by Silence." 3. "Joint Ownership by Chattles." The subject for those studying for the degree of M. L. is : "The Consolidation of Railways and the Government of Cities." For those...
...Reading Room is now open. It is situated in the old Law School building, Dane Hall, in the room directly above that occupied by the Cooperative Society. The list of papers and periodicals there to be found is as follows: Boston Advertiser, Herald, Globe, Transcript, Traveller, Saturday Evening Gazette; New York Herald, Tribune, Times, Post, Truth; Springfield Republican; London Punch, Graphic, Illustrated News and Weekly Times; The Graphic, Life, Clipper, Turf, Field and Farm, Spirit of the Times; The Modern Age, Progress, Puck; New Haven Union; Good Literature. This list will soon be enlarged. The Reading Room is indebted...
...London Times is to be taken hereafter in the Law School reading room, and afterwards placed on file in the college library...