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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Under the leadership of Professor Dwight the supreme aim of the Law School, hitherto, has been to fit students for the actual work of law practice. The newer policy, however, condemns this ambition as inadequate, and seeks to expand and remodel the plan of instruction. The idea is to carry out the old object of fitting students to be practicing lawyers, and in addition the advocates of this new plan would have taught at the Law School the theory of law in its highest ranges, as is done in the finest universities of Europe. This expansion and extension of instruction...
...Beginning at the culmination of the previous critical period, the third period is at first devoted to the study of the inner life, but is later led to fresh efforts to comprehend outer nature. It is throughout much influenced by natural science and by the newer study of history. In consequence, it develops the idea of Evolution. Its problem is the synthesis and reconciliation of our knowledge of outer nature with our understanding of the inner life...