Word: laws
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Frank Johnson Goodnow, Professor at Columbia; clear of brain and tireless in work; an expounder of administrative law and municipal government, who has trained many disciples by his teaching, enlightened the public by his works, and placed his great knowledge freely at the service of the state...
Henry Pratt Judson, a scholar in law and in political science; President of the University of Chicago, which escaped the pains and perils of youth, and was born, fully equipped, into the fellowship of great universities...
John Henry Wigmore, delegate from Northwestern University; author of a monumental treatise on the Law of Evidence, a jurist in a day when lawyers are many and jurists rare...
...they were constantly measuring themselves by one standard in their common occupations. The curriculum, consisting mainly of the classics, with a little mathematics, philosophy and history, was the same for them all; designed, as it was, not only as a preparation for the professions of the ministry and the law, but also as the universal foundation of liberal education...
...dogmatic in this matter, for it is one on which great divergence of opinion exists. The instructors in the various professional schools are by no means of one mind in regard to it, and their views are of course based largely upon experience. Our Law School lays great stress upon native ability and scholarly aptitude, and comparatively little upon the particular branches of learning a student has pursued in college. Any young man who has brains, and has learned to use them, can master the law, whatever his intellectual interests may have been; and the same thing is true...