Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will always be critics whose only textbook is the scoreboard. There will always be people with a what's-the-matter-with-this-or-that complex. There will always be people with an inordinate desire to make themselves heard and usually their noise is inversely proportional to their knowledge. Harvard football has been unable to escape from this sort of interest, but the present committee will very properly ignore...
...cross-word puzzle craze has gained such popularity at Princeton that Professor R. K. Root of the English department has suggested establishing a course in English vocabulary using cross-word puzzles as the textbook...
...case book system consists of requiring the students to master the facts and legal principles of the leading cases, as actually adjudicated by the courts, of the subjects under discussion. The so called textbook method consists of studying the works of the recognized legal authorities, such as Blackstone's Commentaries, Minor's Institutes, Kent's Commentaries, Story's Commentaries and Greenleaf's Evidence in their revised editions; and the works of numerous other more modern writers, such as Williston's Contracts, Wigmore's Evidence, Pollock's Torts...
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the U. S. Supreme Court, formerly a student at Harvard under the textbook system, and a teacher at Harvard under the case book system, is an ardent advocate of the latter method. In an address entitled The Use of Law Schools, he once said: "Under the influence of Germany, science is gradually drawing legal history into its sphere. The facts are being scrutinized by eyes microscopic in intensity and panoramic in scope. . . . I do think that, in the thoroughness of their training, and in the systematic character of their knowledge, the young...
...Border family. His mother was a cousin of Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Buchan regards writing as his avocation. He was called to the English bar in 1901. He has seen duty in South Africa-both worked and shot big game there. He has collaborated in writing a legal textbook on taxation of foreign income. He is partner in Thomas Nelson & Sons, one of the largest publishing houses in the world. Nor has he escaped politics; he once stood for his county as Unionist candidate for Parliament. His War career was brilliant, progressing from newspaper correspondent, intelligence officer in active battle...