Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual elections held yesterday in the principal boroughs of Massachusetts showed a general sentiment against a liquor-license law...
...SCHOOL OF LAW...
There are 26 trustees and 126 instructors. Of the 471 students in the School of Law, 259, or 55 per cent., were graduates from 47 different colleges. Last year the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on 48 men; Master of Arts, after examination, on 2; of Engineer of Mines, on 15; of Civil Engineer, on 8; of Bachelor of Philosophy, in the scientific course, on 22; in the political science course, on 10; of Doctor of Philosophy, on 3; of Bachelor of Laws, on 102: of Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, on 21; of Doctor of Medicine...
...good - as here practised it is a partial failure. The executive power is vested in the usual officers, from president down to marshal. The legislative power is vested in a senate composed of twenty-one members. Every legislative act requires the signature of the regent to become a law. The judicial power is vested in a court presided over by a chief justice and two associates. There are also meetings of the general assembly. It reflects rather severely on this system, that if all the officers, save the marshal, the prosecuting attorney and the justices, were to resign, the efficiency...
Numerous mistakes are made among the students on account of the erratic methods used in giving official notices. In the first place the Bulletin is issued weekly containing a summary of the events of the coming week, and is more or less complete according as the law of uniformity holds. But changes are often made, and other notices given besides, that are often of considerable importance. The main official bulletins are to be found usually in the glass cases in the south entry of University and in Sever, and general reliance is placed in the former because...