Word: legally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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English VI. Oral discussion. Opened by Messrs. Robinson and Smith. The Legal Tender Decision in the Light of Mr. George Bancroft's recent Pamphlet. Sever...
English VI. Oral discussion. Opened by Messrs. Robinson and Smith. The Legal Tender Decision in the Light of Mr. George Bancroft's recent Pamphlet. Sever...
...During my stay in Boston last spring, men engaged in legal practice spoke to me of the great value of the law-teaching at Harvard University. Mr. Sidney Bartlett, the Father of the Massachusetts Bar, told me that the three-years' course at Harvard was equal to seven years' work in an office. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Dr. Eliot, President of the university, spoke to the same effect. Dr. Eliot related with pardonable pride that at a recent dinner of old Harvard men a prominent young advocate had declared that, when he was a student, he had often...
...meet. Even be the odds against him, one likes to know the fact. Especially valuable then is an address like the one delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University last June, by William Henry Rawle, M.A., L.L.D. The author is a man of large experience in legal circles. He takes for his subject, "The Case of the Educated Un-employed," It is impossible to give here any of his ideas. But the address is worth reading to any man who feels, in trying to choose his profession, as if he were about to embark on an unknown...
Again, very few real journalists would be willing to teach journalism, and could not if they would. This profession differs from the medical and legal, in that a man who has mastered the elements of these latter is equipped for any district in the country, since physiology and the principles of common law are always the same. In journalism every locality demands different work. The requirements as well as the taste of the public must be understood and satisfied. The journalistic knowledge which would suit Boston; for example, would be altogether unsuitable for Minnesota. The two essential characteristics...