Word: method
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They have two purposes; first, to give a dramatic representation of the method and spirit that exist at the Assembly and Council at Geneva, and second, to form a new and interesting type of debating society in which a certain reality is given discussions of international problems since the students debate from the view points of the nations that they represent...
...holdings in Wheeling & Lake Erie. This order has not been rescinded, but the Van Swer-ingens (Nickel Plate owners) blandly ask for all, having been told that they could have nothing.* No blind optimists, the Van Sweringens possibly were asking for control of the Wheeling as an emphatic method of objecting to the road getting into the hands of the Taplin interests, who are also closely eyeing...
...still preserved in pickle for the curiosity of the Moscow public and for the consolation of the faithful." - Lenin. "In the cutting off of the lives of men and women no Asiatic conqueror, not Tamerlane, not Jenghiz Khan, can match his fame. . . . His purpose, to save the world: his method, to blow it up. . . . Apt at once to kill or to learn: . . . ruffianism and philanthropy: but a good husband; a gentle guest; happy, his biographers assure us, to wash up the dishes or dandle the baby; as mildly amused to stalk a capercailzie as to butcher an Emperor. . . . Lenin...
...under which the course is conducted might be more aptly termed the "case, note and extract system." The well known ability of the legal scholar who compiled this strange work serves only to accentuate how insuperable are the difficulties in the way of the satisfactory adaptation of the case method to Property 1. As to the course on contracts the casebook aided by an excellent treatise, and when expounded by a master, does its work well. How it would fare if unsupported by either of these props is a dubious question. Of the situation in the second and third year...
...drift here adverted to will continue. Newer, more comprehensive and convenient texts will appear from the pens of professors of other law schools and will be worked in within the limits of the abuse of the existing method. It is inconceivable that present conditions will continue to be accepted as ultimate in the perfectibility of legal education...