Word: legale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Legal Aid Bureau will reopen Monday at its former quarters in the Cambridge Neighborhood House at Harvard and Moore streets. The Bureau, which is under the direction of Dean Stanley, a third-year Law School man, aims to provide legal service to people who cannot pay for such services. Its secondary purpose is to give the Law School men valuable experience in the courts, as permitted by the Massachusetts Bar Association. The office hours of the Bureau will be from 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday...
...Ames Prize is awarded at intervals of four years. It consists of a bronze medal and a sum of not less than $400, and is awarded to the writer of the most meritorious law book or legal essay written in the English language and published not less than one nor more than five years before the award...
...Frankfurter was graduated with highest honors from the Law School in 1906. In the summer of that year he was appointed Assistant United States District Attorney in New York, and in 1911 was appointed law officer of the Bureau of Insular Affars in the War Department, acting as chief legal advisor of the colonial administration. He was appointed in 1914 head of a new department in the University...
...taking of a life, even though it be in accordance with legal forms, should be carefully considered. In sentencing to death the state is following a policy which it can never revoke. Death remains the one unalterable decree. There are few times when this last resort need be brought into play. The protection of society demands that killing be the reward of those whom no other form of punishment can restrain from nefarious ways. Foremost in this class stand the spies within a nation at war. When that nation is forced to devote every energy in a conflict which threatens...
...settling of the problem of the ages can't be done in the twinkling of an eye--not even the legal eye. I, for one, have no such ambitions, even if I were to live and try for 'a thousand years. But though the aim be only to hint at a useful tendency--that, too, takes a certain amount of effort and patience. That is why I feel the need of coming back to the attack, on that little matter of the aims of education...