Word: laws
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Law School Debating Club, which has been organized with a membership limited to twenty-five, will hold its first meeting on Friday. The club will be conducted this year on the plan which has proved so successful formerly. Meetings will be held every other Friday, at which the four principal speakers will have five minutes for opening speeches, and five minutes for rebuttal, after which the debate will be open to the house. The first debate will be on the Philippines question...
...Law School Crew--Stroke, F. Blake; 7, C. M. Sheafe; 6, H. Bancroft; 5, C. B. Wood; 4, L. Marvin; 3, W. E. Griswold; 2, W. T. Shepard; bow, A. DuBois...
...fair to be both more graceful and more satisfactory to everybody. Another important change is in the order of rebuttal speeches. During the coming year the affirmative instead of the negative will make the last rebuttal speech and close the debate. This is in accordance with the procedure in law courts, and removes the too great advantage heretofore held by the negative. The disadvantages of the burden of proof will now be somewhat offset by the final rebuttal...
Undergraduate management of debating teams is almost impossible because, in the first place, nearly every team has on it one or more law or divinity school men, since it takes that long to develop 'varsity debaters, and in the second place there can seldom be found among the undergraduates a man able to maintain the control necessary to produce harmony under his coaching...
...charts and pamphlets the development of the college elective system in the Law School will be set forth. The exhibit of the Observatory will represent the work of the United States in astronomy and all the space necessary for this exhibition will be granted. It will consist of reports from the Cambridge, Arequipa and Blue Hill observatories. Among the collection of photographs of heavenly bodies will be the stellar charts and photographs of stellar spectra produced with the aid of the great photographic telescope now in South America, the gift of Miss C. W. Bruce of New York. There also...