Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been given permission by Lawson Robertson, of the University of Pennsylvania, head coach of the Olympic team, to enter the final tryouts to be held in the stadium on July 6 and 7 without qualifying in previous meets. This privilege has been granted him because preparations for his Law School examinations have prevented him from getting in a needed amount of practice on the cinder track. In the few sprints that he has taken in the Stadium this spring, Miller has shown good form and has been comparatively consistent in equaling and breaking ten seconds on the 100-yard dash...
...customary four hour examinations upon which the entire year's work at the Law School depends, are apparently regarded as insufficient test to qualify students for promotion. A new and more stringent means of testing the student's calibre has been devised to supplement the nervous and mental strain of the present system, namely, the requirement that student work under fire--or more literally, in the immediate presence of a roaring steamshovel. Uninterruptedly, save for one-half hour at noon, it puffs and snorts and hisses forty feet from the open windows. No longer, aparently, can one get through...
...test, coming as it does all at once on top of the others is palpably unfair; the students should be notified in the catalog, so that if they are of the temperament which makes them susceptible to violent and tumultuous distractions during examinations they would know that the Harvard Law School was not the place for them...
...Law School has just completed a transaction with the University Library by which a collection of over 300 English legal documents of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries gathered by F.A. Crisp, F.S.A., of London, have become the property of the Law School Library...
...documents are on parchment and include charters, conveyances of land, and manor court rolls. The collection is valuable as a basis for study of the antecedents of English Common Law...