Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...into two courts: a Supreme Court, formed of the second year men; and a Superior Court, formed of the first year men. The object of the club is to hear and decide cases and points of law. The members of the Supreme Court have a twofold duty; they must sit at a meeting of their own court, which is presided over by a third year man or a member of the Faculty; and they must act as presiding judges at the meetings of the Superior Court, which meets once a week, while the Supreme Court meets once in two weeks...
...give it to two members of the lower court. These men are to go to work and hunt up all the authorities on the subject, and when the meeting is called, are expected to argue the point as opposing counsels. The other six men of the Superior Court sit as associatte judges...
During all these years the friends of Hard have had to sit with the sun in their eyes, looking in the direction where everything is blue, and they are getting a little tired of it. Can you not push the proposition of changing sides this year...
...there be any special advantage in the "Yale side" of the field at Hampden Park we should heartily favor the suggestion made in the communication from the New York graduates. It has been rather trying to be obliged to sit for two or three hours with the sun square in one's eyes, and yet there is the advantage that the sunny side is the warmer of the two. A change for one year could not, however, do any great harm and we should be interested to see it tried...
...much as though he were a sort of gladiator; he is criticised as freely and blamed as harshly if in his best endeavors he prove unsuccessful. We maintain that in such matters no man who has not at least done what he is capable of, has a right to sit idly by and criticise the rest...