Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doris Stevens to be. Miss Stevens, a moving spirit within the National Woman's Party, attended the Pan-American Congress last January in Havana to present an Equal Rights Treaty. This was the result, gratifying to herself and colleagues. Said she: "A step of great significance . . . challenge to law makers the world over." She outlined the scope of a new super-suffrage for women of the Western Hemisphere, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego...
...acted from commendable motives in complaining against a superior whose conduct had been well nigh unbearable. This view was taken by practically the entire London press, last week, including the usually antithetical Conservative Daily Telegraph and Laborite Daily Herald. At Gibraltar, however, the Court held to the unwritten law of Navy discipline and found both the accused "guilty." Both were sentenced to lose their active commands and to go on half pay until the Admiralty shall see fit to order them once more to active service. Cried the Telegraph: "We must deplore the system of discipline which made the verdicts...
Beginning next fall, the Columbia University Law School has announced that its rules governing admission will be so administered as to limit admission to a carefully selected group of men who are fully qualified to comply with the standards of the school. Two reasons are advanced by the Law Faculty for the important change in educational policy, first, the increase in number of law students, and second, the ineffectiveness of the present admission requirements which have not proved wholly effective in excluding men not suited to the type of work done in the better schools...
...appears that the Columbia Law Faculty has been studying this problem since 1921 and believes that it has discovered a means of detecting in advance men who are incapable of complying with required standards. Experiment by means of a "capacity test" has consistently revealed that over ninety percent of the men who scored below a certain grade did poor work in law school. Consequently it is felt that the "capacity test" is a reliable means of presaging a man's capability for law school work and-it will go into effect at Columbia next fall...
...year of their lives is not only unfortunate for them but their presence in the school seriously interferes with the work of the more capable students. If the "capacity test" can reduce the enormous percentage of failures at Columbia it will have solved a major problem of the leading law schools. Besides, the providing of better educational opportunities for the good men is an outstanding movement in academic institutions throughout the country. The "capacity test" of the Columbia Law School, in this respect, is just an extension of the "psychological test" administered by Columbia University to entrants and the "scholastic...