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Dean Pound dealt at considerable length with the need of knowledge of the Common Law. He traced the wresting of the first personal rights from the King of England, their incorporation in the Magna Charta, and the great influence of that "dusty parchment" upon the Anglo-Saxon race. He emphasized the necessity of building all new projects upon the firm foundation of past experience. Especially in the practice of law should attention be devoted to the gradual growth of personal liberty and the slow progress toward a rational society...
...present time ninety-three French Croix de Guerre have been awarded to University men since 1914. Forty-four of these men have had their names inscribed on a parchment to President Lowell from A. P. Andrew '95, as having received their decorations while in the service of the Ambulance. Corps in Europe before the United States entered the war. Lovering Hill '10, a section leader in this service has received four citations for exceptional bravery since he was awarded his Croix de Guerre...
There has also just been mounted in the Treasure Room the original parchment probate copy of Izaac Walton's will, dated August...
...cornerstone will contain a parchment bearing the inscription copies of the College publications of the day--the Lampoon, Monthly, Illustrated, Advocate, the 1916 Red Book, this morning's CRIMSON, pictures of Gore Hall, the old library, copies of the various official University publications, and a copy of "College Life" by Dean Briggs...
...Cobden-Sanderson next traced the changes in the materials out of which books have been made, from the original slabs of baked clay, to the papyrus, parchment, and paper states. Then came an attempt to solve the question of the origin of the alphabet, through the progressive modification of hieroglyphics, passing through the hieratie, Phoenician and Greek symbols, and culminating in the invention of lower-case letters by the monkish scribes of the Middle Ages...