Word: laws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cage for the University of Pennsylvania base ball team which was to have been completed during the holidays, was found at the last minute to come under the law which forbids the erection of wooden structures within the city limits, and it is, therefore, necessary to wait until a permit to build can be secured from the Department of Public Safety. No difficulty is expected in this respect, as there are no building near at hand, and the structure itself is not an extensive...
...years the total number of graduates was 1,352. Of these 45 are engaged in agriculture, 51 in architecture and building, 5 in art, 23 in banking, 11 in chemistry and assaying, 150 in civil engineering, 246 in education, 30 in electrical engineering, 61 in newspaper work, 235 in law, 25 in manufacturing, 43 in mechanical engineering, 65 in medicine and surgery, 115 in mechanical pursuits, 30 in the ministry, 5 in publishing, 12 in scientific investigation and 65 in study; 121 are without occupation or unreported...
...sovereignty and by state sovereignty-which means that the government cannot undertake to assume as national questions all the affairs of life, but that the states must do their share in examining them. Again there is a practical difficulty which confronts us when we try to add the divorce law to our national constitution: this, that a three-fourths vote of the states is required to pass an amendment, and, since there are so many laws, it would be hard to obtain a satisfactory vote on any one of them...
...Shoemaker, '89, then spoke for the affirmative. The question before us is one of extreme dignity, said the speaker, and should not be considered merely in the light of state law; but it is a question of the disunion of families, and therefore should be regarded of the highest import to the rulers of our country. Like the tariff, it is bound to become a national question in spite of our efforts to the contrary. The speaker then went on to show the impracticability of several methods of changing the law, and finally ended by discussing the advantages of constitutional...
...Oxnard spoke next for the negative. When we make a law a part of our national constitution it becomes solidified there, and is not easily ejected. This question of divorce is one of the experimented sciences, and the safest place for its laws at present is in the state government, which is more easily changed. There is an advantage in state divorce laws, which is that each state sees, and avoids the errors of other state laws, and in this way, aids in obtaining perfectness...