Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from 1833 to 1846, and Dane Professor, succeeding Story, from 1846 to 1848. The time when story and Greenleaf were associated in teaching is reckoned as one of the great periods in the school's history. Greenleaf's "Treatise on Evidence", embodying the results of his teaching of that subject in the school, was for a long time the standard work upon the subject, and is still an authority...
Theophilus Parsons (1797-1882) was Dane Professor of Law, succeeding Greenleaf, from 1848 to 1870. His "Treatise on Contracts", published originally in 1853, went through nine editions and was the standard treatise upon the subject until the publication of Professor Samuel Williston's '82 great book in 1920. The time when Parsons taught in association with Joel Parker and Emory Washburn is reckoned as another great period in the school's history...
...large field, with a view toward selecting a small portion of that field for highly specialized work in Senior year. A written examination at the end of Junior year closes the consideration of perhaps five hundred years of history, and leaves the candidate free for leisurely work on a subject of his own choice, untroubled by the spectre of divisionals just before graduation...
...Senior, then, is thrown into the work of a thesis and concentrated study on a restricted field with a background so hastily assimilated that it is unwieldy for practical purposes. Specialization founded on this will lead in all probability to one of two things: intensive concentration on a small subject to the point of pedantry, or, more dangerous still, a mental confusion arising from insufficient absorption of background. Here the specialization becomes a hindrance rather than a help, a confinement rather than a liberation of the mind...
Examinations were made to be passed, but the character of the divisional may be changed by making it merely an opportunity for the student to organize and express what he has learned of a whole subject in three full years of study and reflection. In the freedom of extended time the less ambitious will find an advantage and the capable undergraduate will more nearly approach an understanding of his field sufficient for him to attempt a small specialized job in the form of a thesis in his final year. From a hurdle for the honors men the divisional becomes...