Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brooks Adams gave his first lecture on "Constitutional Law" yesterday in the Law School...
...article begins by stating that the inquiries of a graduate of a small New England college, among prominent judges and lawyers scattered all over the country, relative to the standing of the graduates from the different law schools in the United States, called out overwhelming testimony to the eminence of the representatives of the Harvard Law School. "The returns awarded the school a leading, if not the foremost, position among such institutions in America...
After giving an excellent description of the new Law School building the writer goes on to say : "It does not require a legal mind to see that with the beginning of the next academic year the would-be member of the bar is to receive his training in Coke and Blackstone under most luxurious surroundings. Whether the next generation of lawyers will be keener or more learned than those drilled in the close rooms of Dane Hall is a question, but that the Harvard student will be superior to others in his conception of the worth and dignity...
...much disputed question of the relative merits of our own school and the Boston University Law School comes in for its share of attention as follows : "It has been the fashion for many years to institute comparisons between this school and that connected with the Boston University. The latter undoubtedly enjoys the great advantage of close proximity to the U. S. Courts; but there is a danger that this attraction may draw the student from his regular study and, on the whole, the Harvard professors are content to have the undivided time and attention of their pupils. The methods...
...sometimes been urged against the Harvard school that it deals too much with theories and not enough with the practice of the law, and there is probably more truth in this criticism than is generally admitted in Cambridge; still the professors have, with but one exception in the whole history of the school, been taken from the ranks of the active profession. The later tendency, however, may be seen in taking Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 'a closet lawyer,' or one who has made the law a study rather than a profession, for a new professorship. This appointment was regarded...