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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Those who at present are busy over the Constitution of the United States will find it greatly to their advantage to consult the former of these essays, for many interesting questions are there started. "Is it the violation of any law laid down in the Constitution, is it an element of Insurrection or of Invasion, for a man to place in the ballot-box a vote for whatever candidate he may choose?" Also, "If the militia is called into active service by the President, without the authority of Congress, is this anything but the assumption of Imperial power?" Unfortunately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

...Law and Medical Schools, particularly, are insufficiently endowed, and depend somewhat for their maintenance on the number of their students. Any attempt to raise the standard of the Schools diminishes the number of students; and though the class of men who are sent or kept away by this cause, as students, can well be spared, financially their loss is a serious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

...fill out its curriculum the [Law] School greatly needs a fourth professorship, to be devoted to Roman Law, Jurisprudence, and the History of Law; but this chair must be amply endowed, for the number of students in this country who know enough to desire thorough instruction in these subjects is small and likely to continue so for many years to come." The School itself cannot pay such a professor, as it barely meets its expenses now; so the deficiency must remain unsupplied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

...There is a difficulty in the organization of the Divinity and Law Schools from which the College proper and other professional schools are exempt. . . . . All the other Faculties contain a considerable proportion of young men fresh from their studies, possessed of the most recent methods of instruction, and penetrated with the spirit of their generation. The lack of this refreshing youthful element in the Faculties of Divinity and Law is a serious defect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

After graduation, Mr. Gray studied law and was admitted to the bar, but never practised, turning his whole attention to literature and the fine arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAY COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS. | 1/23/1873 | See Source »

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