Word: legally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more students in our American colleges attach themselves to courses of study which will lead them in practical work in after life, the better for them. Courses in French, English Literature and Fine Arts make good conversationalists; but they help one but little in the stern realities of a legal or business career. Men ought to think previously how they are drifting, before they make their election of courses; for they frequently lose all track of their previous education, their previous convictions, and their previous manner of thinking, by dabbling in the pleasant but deceptive waters of philosophy...
...Kilburn Town Hall on Friday evening. It is taken from the French, is dated 1817, and is really a duel of words and stratagems between the advocate, Malesherbes, and the Baroness De Mergis, a lady who has piqued him by raising false hopes as regards love within his legal breast. She wishes to marry her son to Helene, daughter of the Marquis De la Tour, whose estates had been confiscated and bestowed on the father of Barnard Dubois. This young gentlemen is supposed to be dead, but he returns to claim his property, incited thereto by the rejected Malesherbes. Bernard...
...Club, to any present under-graduate of Harvard College for the best essay on some economic subject. For the year 1886-7 the following subjects are suggested: - 1, The duties on wool and woolens; 2, Shall the state assume the control of the railways?; 3, The effect of the legal tender quality on the value of paper money; 4, Profit sharing...
...changes in the regulations which we review, offer food for thought, especially to those who are chronically on the "ragged edge" of admonition or probation. Many of the "legal quibbles" of the old system are done away with and good standing depends on the favorable opinion of the instructors, The duties of the Dean once those of judge have been reduced simply to those of executioner. No more of the famous "petitions" for what are politely called "occasional brief indispositions," by the new regulations will be received. The necessity for many of them has disappeared, however, with the advent...
...that body was excellently! drilled by that skilled tactician, Mr. J. A. Frye, and dressed in smart policemen's uniforms they formed a very pleasing feature of the show. Their leading transparency informed the public that they were "drumming for clients." Their other transparencies, though all based on legal catches were exceedingly clever. One represented "Circuity of Action," as exemplified by a corporal's arm and a trim maiden's waist; its reverse, by a diagram of a gentleman birching a boy, gave a good illustration of "Quarter Merited." A second displayed a picture of Austin Hall. A third...