Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Edwin W. Stoughton, ex-United States Minister to Russia, and a prominent lawyer of New York, died Saturday...
...professors delighted the third year engineers the other day with his views on the so-called "marking system." He argues, and with some force, that a lawyer, in order to find out what a witness knows, does not want a written, but an oral examination; that written examinations are often purposely ambiguous in order to hide ignorance, and that, in his experience of thirty years' teaching, "marking does not show, either absolutely or even relatively, the amount of a student's knowledge on any given subject." We should like to get the professor's ideas upon co-education. - [Acta Columbiana...