Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard was compelled by the government to confer upon Butler her highest degree of nobility. With true Attic astuteness the venerable university enacted a law making her degrees revocable and had him by the hair; for, on the evening of commencement, she revoked his LL. D. for disorderly conduct in the yard...
...Portland paper contains the following anecdote concerning a Harvard professor: "John Quincy Adams was an advocate of early rising. Professor Greenleaf, of the Harvard Law School, was not. One day the ex-president attended lecture, and fell asleep. The professor pointed to him and addressed the class, 'Young gentlemen, behold the effect of early rising.' It is a reminiscence of one of the students...
There was a cut yesterday in Roman Law...
There was no recitation yesterday in Torts at the Law School...
...income from the State agricultural fund ($7910) increased the receipts of the year to $51,856. The expenses of the school were $56,944. The medical college fund is $28,898; the receipts from all sources, chiefly tuitions, were $6158, and the expenses, $8020. The only fund of the law department is the library fund of $10,000, yielding an income of $600. The receipts for tuition were $7333, and the expenditure, $7924. The aggregate of all funds was $1,826,532. The needs of the university are in excess of its income, especially in the academic, scientific, medical...