Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Albert W. Shaw, Yale '79, a well known teacher and lawyer of Buffalo, died at his home last week of typhoid fever...
...schools or, as proposed by the method of anticipating studies. Let the attendance at preparatory schools be steady in boyhood, as in France, and young men will then invariably graduate from college at twenty, as they are well able to do. Moreover, we deny that the new doctor or lawyer begins his real life work later than other young men who, instead of going to college, have drifted from one calling to another until at the age of twenty-four or twenty-five, they settle into their life's occupation when the professional man begins...
There are two courses open to an honorable lawyer when he doubts the justice of his clients case, first, to bring about a compromise, if possible, (and it is in this way in which many cases end); secondly, to present a fair argument and let the case stand wholly on its merits. Then, too, that lawyer is the most honorable and will in the end succeed best, who treats all witnesses fairly and courteously. Too many lawyers think it advisable to bulldoze all men with whom they come in contact, but the best cross-examiner is he who treats...
...greater part of a lawyer's practice does not consist of pleading a case in court, but in what is termed "non-contentious business" -such as drawing up wills and other documents, looking after estates, collecting money, etc. For even more than crime and immorality are defects of memory and imperfections of language the causes of lawyer's business. For a lawyer to succeed, many qualifications are necessary. First of all come industry and patience. Law is not an easy mistress and he soonest learns her smile who reads incessantly and carefully, and at the same time brings...
Judge Smith. in conclusion, then spoke of the chances of pecuniary success for the young lawyer. The oft repeated saying that "there is always room at the top" was never so true as it is today. There is probably not so much room at the foot now as there was fifty years ago, for many things done then by lawyers are now performed by others. The young lawyer must experience many years of patient waiting before he can hope for success, but if he employ these years of waiting in a profitable manner, if he keep brain...