Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...institution, since we recognize that obedience to constituted authority is essential to the existence of any institution, and since this affair can only be settled by some concession on our part. we willingly concede the following: That, since as a class we have been and intend to be law-abiding students, we regret the act of disobedience and apologize...
Last Monday evening, at a meeting of the Brookline Civil Service Reform Association, prizes were awarded to the following-named gentlemen : To Mr. William H. White, Law School, a first prize for an essay on "The Effects of the Spoils System on National Legislation," and to the same gentleman another prize for an essay on "Conflict between the claims of locality and method of competitive examination suggested in the Pendleton Bill;" Mr. Marland C. Hobbs, class of '85, received the third prize for an essay on "The Effect of the Spoils System on National Legislation." Competitors were residents of Brookline...
...inquiry will be taken up: What in the nature of things can be assumed to correspond to our moral needs, to offer them encouragement and religious support? Two or three theories will be passed in review under this head, notably the modern doctrine of progress as an universal law, and the doctrines in general that regard the world as showing us some kind of historical process. Then another view will be suggested as giving us another and higher sense in which we can assume that reality answers our moral needs. Finally, since all views in these matters involve faith...
...Law School student, a graduate of '81, has been for some time engaged in writing a life of Marcus Aurelius, which will soon be ready for publication...
...modestly, but surely, else they should not come here to spend three or four of the most valuable years of their lives. For some men there need be no struggle to decide what profession to select; they are born with a genius for some specially, whether it be for law or art or invention. But these are few. Most of our young men have to choose that for which they seem most fit, or which lies nearest at hand. But the training for specialties is to be put off; life is too varied to permit of being all devoted...