Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prospects of the Harvard Law School are decidedly bright. With a newly re-organized course of instruction, with an enlarged body of instructors and with a constantly increasing attendance of students from all parts of the country, and, finally, with the immediate prospect of new and commodious quarters, it need not be many years before our Law School becomes admittedly the foremost institution of its kind in the country. The sketch of the plans for the new building of the school, which we present today, has been carefully prepared for the HARVARD HERALD from the plans in the hands...
...from duty next year, with the present vacancies that exist in several most important positions still unfilled, and the probability of one or more vacancies to come, and finally with a teaching force diminished and otherwise restricted on account of lack of funds, it would seem as though any prospect of a betterment of its present facilities must be very remote indeed...
...there is a more marked Harvard tendency at Andover than has been shown for many years. Undeceive yourself, O News! There was a time last winter when a few misguided youths had a sort of Harvard fever, but they seem to be getting bravely over it; and now the prospect looks as if we should send as many if not more men to Yale than in former years. - [Philippian...
...since the Yale president, who must not be confounded with another person-one Noah Porter, who is sometimes called president of Yale College-had a long interview with the Harvard captain, and the two great men parted with a conviction that a rupture could not be prevented. The prospect now is that no boat-race will be rowed this year, and should this be the case, the future of American higher education will be dark indeed...
...recent appointment of new instructors in the Law School, and the assured prospect of new quarters, can not but strengthen the conviction that the authorities are determined to leave no effort undone to place all needful improvements in this somewhat neglected department of the university. There is no reason why the Law School should not occupy as high a position in the estimation of the public, or be as well conducted as the other departments, and the energy displayed by the powers that be to increase the capabilities of the school will certainly have the desired effect of arousing...