Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...George W. Anderson, a prominent Boston lawyer, and Mr. Charles W. Parmenter, headmaster of Mechanics Arts High School, will be two of the judges for the Cambridge debate. The presiding officer and the third judge have not yet been announced...
...greatest men of history have mistaken their vocations and found their true work only after false starts. Goethe began to study for the law and schiller spent some years as any army surgeon. Sir Francis Bacon believed that his fame would rest of his career as a lawyer and statesman. Bourne-Jones did not begin to paint until he was nearly thirty years old. In our own time we have seen Mr. Booth Tarkington who aspired to be an artist emerge as one of the leading American authors...
...console themselves for the lack of industry on their determination to labor conscientiously, once they enter the professional school. There is no greater fallacy than the one that leads us to think that it is safer to loaf in college than to loaf in a professional school. The young lawyer who has neglected the law may make up his deficiencies in the early years of his practice--"he will have plenty of time then." But there is no recovery of the years thrown away at college...
...Henry W. Simpson '85, a week known lawyer in New York...
...other characters are not so successfully represented. However, there are a few brilliant exceptions. Samuel Tanner as a shyster lawyer is most convincing, but C. L. Felter as president of a women's college fails to exhibit even the weaknesses demanded of his part. In passing, we cannot but demand that he have his frock coat altered so that it will fit around his neck...