Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parry, visiting professor of Law, and Ezra Ripley Thayer, teaching fellow of Law, explained that the prospective English lawyer receives a classical education which precludes a knowledge of the practical subjects given so much attention in American law schools...
Fred A. Schroeder--Mower A-22, Jackson M. Rice--Stoughton 23, Gerald T. Norton--Stoughton 14, Edward M. Stresser--Straus B-11, Michael Weagle--Straus D 11, Tobert A. Bowman--Thayer 21, Stephen B. Kay--Thayer 6, George Van Angelis--Thayer...
...Thayer notes in his history that "transgressions of arbitrary academic or theological requirements are punished more severely than misbehavior which indicates real moral defects: . . . 'neglecting analysing' is twice as wicked as lying; absence for recitation is as blameworthy as drunkenness...
...Thayer, however, nothes that students "did not submit meekly" to the rules that bound them, Faculty...
...whole, Thayer's evaluation of the liberalization of rules is a good one: "When there were many laws, the temptation to break them was too great to be always risisted; when Tutors and Proctors were looked upon as policemen and detectives, the pleasure of outwitting and harassing them was mingled with a sense of superior cunning or with the exultation of successful daring...