Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale College Catalogue for 1879-80 shows that the students at the college number 1,003, including 581 in the academical apartment, 175 in the scientific school, 88 in the theological school, 32 in the medical college, and 74 in the law school; the rest being divided between the students in the school of fine arts and those pursuing a graduate course. The list of Faculty and instructors includes one hundred names...
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...benefits to be derived are numerous. We should train ourselves to speak clearly and concisely in public, - an acquirement to which too little attention is paid; we should become familiar with the usages of debate, - valuable to almost every one, but more especially to those who intend to practise law; we should learn to reason carefully; and, finally, we should keep alive our interest in the great political and social question of the day. It may seem to some that these results are painted in too glowing colors, but we feel confident that, under proper management, a Harvard Union might...
...amateurs can compete, and the absence of the professional element in base ball heretofore should have warned these men that, by becoming members of a professional club, they ceased to be amateurs, and disfranchised themselves, so to speak. In other words, a long standing precedent becomes in effect a law. These facts being known to the Brown men previously to their engagement, refusing to accept their explanation would not have been in the "nature of an ex post facto law." Moreover, ex post facto laws relate only to criminal cases, and therefore can have no application to this...
...proctorship. While agreeing that a change for the better can be made, we hope that the plan proposed, if we are rightly informed as to its aim, will not be adopted, because of its unjust discrimination. Men who have gone through college on scholarships and who enter the Law School, for example, need help then as much as at any previous time; and proctorships are almost the only resource, scholarships in the Law School being small and few. If any class is to be excluded from proctorships, it seems to us that it should be tutors, assistant-professors, and professors...