Word: laws
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Announcement was made yesterday at the first meeting of a French course that one of the basic books of the course, a French text of Rabelais, could not be imported into this country according to a recent interpretation of the law by the customs authorities. To gather sufficient volumes for the students enrolled in this course, the Harvard Co-operative Society was forced to scour book marts of the country for copies that had already been imported...
...largest law school building in the world was formally opened yesterday at the University before a distinguished throng which included some of the leading lawyers and jurists of this country, as well as representatives from many of the law schools of the United States and foreign countries...
Honorary degrees were awarded to two foreign legal scholars by the Harvard Law School. The recipients of these honorary doctorships of law were William W. Buckland, president of Caius and Gonville colleges, Cambridge, England, Regius professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University and one of the outstanding authorities of the world on Roman Law, and Perey H. Winfield. Rouse Professor of English Law at Cambridge...
...room, the enlarged library with its immense reading room, and from the relief which new offices and class rooms will give to overcrowding, important as these material gains undoubtedly are, they seem somewhat overshadowed in the realization that is suggested this morning of the increasingly strong influence of the Law School on national life...
...train competent lawyers is, alone, a notable achievement. But the production of young members of the bar is only one of the activities going on over on the other side of the Yard. In such accomplishments as the creation of the Institute of Criminal Law which opens this fall can be seen the importance of the Law School in the general development of the American legal code. The completed Langdell Hall is a symbol of this increasingly distinguished side of the Law School...