Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...truth in this criticism than is generally admitted in Cambridge; still the professors have, with but one exception in the whole history of the school, been taken from the ranks of the active profession. The later tendency, however, may be seen in taking Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 'a closet lawyer,' or one who has made the law a study rather than a profession, for a new professorship. This appointment was regarded on all sides as admirable, and great was the disappointment when Professor Holmes was transferred to the Supreme Bench. Judge Holmes is himself a good type of the class...
This story did not originate at Harvard: One day not long ago a lawyer was arguing a case before the Supreme Court, and made use of the word "precedent," pronouncing it, however, with the accent on the second syllable, thus, "pre-ce-dent." Pretty soon he used the word again, and this time he gave the accent as it is usually given, on the first syllable. Justice Woods, who sits next to Justice Gray, noticing this variation in the lawyer's pronounciation, whispered to Justice Gray, "He pronounced it right the first time." Whereupon Justice Gray said, "What college were...
...rise on this occasion. You are all aware of the trial we have passed through; and, as custom requires, we are about to honor the chief magistrate designated at the recent election. I rise therefore to propose that the degree of LL. D. be conferred upon the soldier, statesman, lawyer and publicist, Gen. Benjamin F. Butler...
There is good reason to believe that the author of "Guerndale," the great novel of Harvard life, is Mr. F. J. Stimson, a young lawyer of Boston...
...beheld it, would kill them. They will now feel easier, for they see that, if elected, his appearance at the old university will be simply the triumph of a cultured conscience over the temptations and trials of American life and of the application to public affairs by an elderly lawyer and soldier of the loftiest principles of private morality. If he has a large following of 'the boys,' too, it will certainly be a hushed and deeply-moved crowd, for these rude natures are not insensible to the influence of openly-avowed spiritual regeneration...