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...With regard to the improvement already shown from Prohibition: the following statistics are of interest: from the passage of the law until 1921, deaths from liquor declined definitely: then, there was a slow increase until the winter of 1926-1927; but now the deaths caused either directly or indirectly from excessive (or even moderate) consumption of alcohol have been checked by the law. The number has never been so high as in pre-prohibition days, and never will as long as the present law is in existence...
...Amberg, a graduate of the Law School in 1915, will address students in the Court Room of Langdell Hall next Tuesday at 8 o'clock on "Practice in a Moderate Sized City." The meeting is being held under the auspices of the Law School Committee of Phillips Brooks House...
...Harvard Law Review will embark on its forty-third year of publication with its November issue. Sir William Searle Holesworth. Vinerian Professor of English Law at All Souls' College. Oxford, Erwin N. Griswold of the Ohio Bar Association. Professor Felix Frankfurter, LLB. '06, and James M. Sandis are among the contributors to the first number...
...William Holesworth, who is the author of the "History of English Law" has written an essay on "Blackstone's Treatment of Equity". Blackstone was the first to hold the Vinerian professorship which Holesworth now holds. Famous for his "Commentaries". Blackstone exerted a powerful influence on American law at a time when law books were exceedingly scarce in this country. The "Commentaries" consist chiefly of the material which the author used for his lectures and, similarly. Holesworth's article contains material from these lectures...
...article of the Peace Pact (Kellog-Briand Treaty) the United States pledged itself 'never under any circumstances whatsoever to seek the settlement of any dispute from whatsoever causes arising by other than pacific means.' This definitely makes the obligation to keep peace just as much a part of the law of the United States as it is of the law of the world and West Point is therefore an out in wed, illegal anti-social institution...