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...jury system, our oldest and most treasured political heritage, is under fire. A prominent judge has recently made the following statement: "A jury in the average criminal case will give a fair verdict eight times out of ten. But it is different in civil cases involving money and business. In such cases, unless jurors can be found who have had business experience and are trained to weigh facts on their merits, the verdict is too apt to be in line with the small prejudices of small men". The average jury sitting on civil cases nowadays is little more than...
Throughout the centuries, innocent Armenia has been the victim of the world's worst treatment. It is the oldest Christian community in the world; most of its suffering have arisen from its firm faith. America, always proud of its humanitarianism, has a particular reason for interest in Armenia. Having refused as a nation the political responsibility for its government, the least we can do as individuals is to contribute to this human cause. Christmas with us is a time of spending and enjoyment; it will be a small matter for most of us to spare something for the fund. Five...
...state of affairs when Freshmen just starting out upon "the shortest, gladdest years of life" so lose their sense of perspective that they see only shame and dishonor to this "great institution of learning" in one of its gladdest phases, a phase that is also its oldest tradition...
...twenty-eight years Dr. Lyon held the Hollis professorship, the oldest endowed professorship in North America. In 1891 he became director of the Semitic Museum. In 1906 he went to Samaria to undertake excavations there, and discovered the earliest specimens of writing ever found in Palestine. Four years later he assumed the Hancock professorship upon the retirement of his colleague, Professor Toy. He has given courses at the University in the Hebrew and Assyrian languages and in Old Testament History, and has long been recognized as a leading authority in his field...
...Beta Kappa Society was founded at William and Mary College in 1776 and is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America. The Harvard chapter, Alpha of Massachusetts, established in 1779, comprises such men among its members as Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, James Russell Lowell '38, Charles W. Eliot '53, Le Baron Russell Briggs '75, Frederick J. Stimson '76, Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, Theodore Roosevelt '80, Curtis Guild '81, and Gardiner Lane '81. The society endeavors to gather together those men in each class who lead in scholastic attainments, and also by the example and activity of this group of scholars...