Word: laws
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Education itself has not escaped this inevitable law of centralization. For centuries schools and colleges have existed in France. Indeed, previous to the year 1789 there were already some twenty-one or twenty-two universities. The Revolution came, and with it a great upheaval in the social world. People felt that they were about to leave behind the old established state of things to enter upon a life under entirely new conditions, and that for this new state of society new methods were essential...
...times one of the most potent influences of society, from the days of Pericles and Demosthenes to those of Cicero, and from the days of Cicero to those of Pitt and Canning. In all such countries the power of speech had ruled in the Church, in the law, and in the senate. The government of men had been with that power, it was so still, and it would, he doubted not, long continue so; and if the cultivation of that power were neglected in the principal places of education, they would be neglecting one of the chief instruments by which...
...benefit of those students in the Academic Department who wish to know the times and subjects of the first-year lectures at the Law School, and by whom delivered, the following list is printed: Forenoon Lectures begin at eleven o'clock; those on Monday and Tuesday are on Real Property, given by the Hon. Emory B. Washburn; those on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, on Contracts, by Professor J. B. Ames. Afternoon Lectures begin at three. The lecture Monday afternoon is on Crime and Procedure, by Professor Washburn; Tuesday, on Torts, by Professor Lathrop; and Friday, on Civil Procedure (either...
...Faculty of Trinity College having followed the example of our own august body, the students are lamenting the results of a three-cornered rush in which the former body came out ahead. The Tablet editorial opines that the tendency of our collegiate system is toward law and order. Our short experience would lead us to congratulate them on this conclusion...
...hair. Started again at 1.30. Walked twenty miles. Startled female peasant takes us for brigands. Soothed by sight of Freshman's pocket-Bible. Enter a lovely village. Setting sun, lowing herds, etc. Both of us a little tired. People stare. Freshman sings Fair Harvard for a bluff. Prohibitory law. No tavern. Ask aged farmer for night's lodging in his hay-loft. Freshman fool enough not to put out his pipe. Blows smoke in farmer's face. Farmer says "nix"; backed up by bull-dog. Bivouac in pasture. Loaded bushes, complaisant cow. Supper on berries and milk. Heavy...