Word: life
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entered Harvard in 1844 and after graduation studied law with Hon. Samuel Hoar and Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar, being admitted to the bar in 1850. In his early manhood he took an active interest in local affairs, in which he was very prominent during a greater portion of his life...
...Harvard College in 1839 and received the degree of L. B. from the Law School in 1842. Joining his father's law firm he became an extensive practitioner in Boston and vicinity, and also had many cases before the Supreme Court at Washington. During the later years of his life he was not in active business life...
...join with "Several Seniors" in approving the suggestion that the class of '97 wear caps and gowns after the April recess. Aside from its picturesqueness, the costume is democratic in its uniformity, and would strengthen the esprit de corps of the class in the last months of its collegiate life...
...vain to try to find excuses for such conduct. But, nevertheless, we believe that the punishment is too harsh. A man can never outgrow the stigma attached to his name for an act of dishonesty widely known. However hard he may try to be upright in after life, however far removed from his true character deceit may be, this one heedless act will expose him to the scorn of all the world and will prevent his becoming a useful man. Finding no man who trusts him, his career is doomed in advance to failure. The publishing of his name...
...events the Corporation should at least allow the student body the opportunity of remedying the abuses to which they have objected before they insist upon abolishing a custom which is so intimately associated with the college life of the past, and so dearly treasured by the undergraduates (and we believe also by the graduates) of the present...