Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...death of Mr. Choate the University loses one of its most distinguished graduates and the nation mourns one of that body of great Americans who were the great builders in a formative period of its history. He was known alike as lawyer, statesman, orator, diplomatist, and polished wit, but the world's greatest remembrance is founded on his public career...
...South America we have no elective system. Every conceivable subject must be taken. We cannot specialize in any one department. If a man is going to be a lawyer, he must take all the courses in mathematics and chemistry just the same. This system does not produce as good specialists' as yours does, but it does produce a more cultivated man. An individual, after he has been educated in South America, has an extraordinary broad and liberal education. His interests have been cultivated so that he is not centered on one thing, but on many...
...School alone offers no opportunity for its students to conclude their year of study and to go at once into training. It is true that the study of law is such that it may not readily be broken off or curtailed. It is true that a lawyer's training does not fit him primarily, as does a doctor's, for military service. Yet those men who are studying law are competent by their character and ability, if not by their training, for military service. Their country needs their services. They are surely no less willing to fulfill their duty than...
...Bureau maintains an office in Central square, where members of the organization give free legal aid to persons unable to engage the services of a lawyer. Since the beginning of the scholastic year, 95 cases have been aided by the Bureau...
...Widener Library has recently received a bequest of a collection of books and reports concerning railroads by the will of the late Robert D. Jenks '97, of Philadelphia. Mr. Jenks was a lawyer, especially interested in railroad problems and statistics, and his collection is valuable. The library has lately received its regular shipment from England. Among the books received was a complete set of "Punch" for the Farnsworth Room...