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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, held yesterday morning at 50 State street, in the absence of the president of the Board, Hon. George O. Shattuck occupied the chair...
...plan of these lists of graduate courses was: (1) to use convenient general titles for grouping courses on related subjects; (2) to mention special facilities in cach department of the several institutions, with the fellowships and scholarships open to graduate students; (3) to state the numbers of graduate students who took courses in each department during 1894-5; (4) to present brief statements of the collegiate experience of instructors, with some of the subjects on which they have published; (5) to give all the advanced courses definitely offered by each instructor, using short titles, and indicating the amount of time...
...Thomas Q. Seabrooke's third week at the Park Theatre is proving even more successful than the first two. "A World of Trouble" is a cleverly constructed farcical comedy by the Paultons. During the first ten minutes of the play's progress the audience is made acqunainted with the state of affairs in Middleton Simpkin's household. Then the fun begins. Every character misunderstands every other character, a series of cross purposes ensue and for hours surprise treads upon the heels of surprise while the audience is convulsed with merrment. Mr. Seabrook's comic art has full opportunity to display...
...clock, dinner will be served. James C. Carter, LL.B., '53, of New York, the president of the association, will preside. It is expected that, in addition to Professor Langdell and President Eliot, Chief Justice Fuller '55, and Justice Brown '59, of the Supreme Court of the United States, Secretary of State Olney, LL.B., '58, Justice Holmes, LL.B., '66, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Joseph H. Choate, LL.B., '54, of New York, Frank W. Hackett '61, of Washington, and Gustavus H. Wald, LL.B., '75, of Cincinnati, and others will speak. An unusually large attendance is expected, and it is hoped...
...Langdell system of study had not been adopted in any other law school. Since 1886 it has been introduced, to a greater or less extent, in the following named law schools: Columbia, New York; Metropolis, New York; Northwestern University, Chicago; Leland Stanford, Jr., University, California; and Iowa State University. The collections of select cases to be used in connection with instruction have been introduced also in seven other American law schools. The number of students at the Harvard Law School, for six years prior to the academic year 1886, averaged 154. The number is now 404. Since 1886 the courses...