Word: unwritten
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...half of this sum is to be devoted to the general purposes of the University. The other half, although without absolute restrictions, is left for the establishment and maintenance in the Law School of a professorship for the teaching of the distinction between the provinces of written and unwritten...
...some way, the unwritten law discouraging Freshmen from smoking pipes and cigars on the street, seems to have been extended to include the Union. This, I think, is a mistake. The success of the Union depends, in the last analysis, upon succeeding Freshman classes, and if they approach the Club in the right spirit, and can be made to feel that it is their home as well as that of all other Harvard men, they will make the Union an even greater success than it has been heretofore. Therefore, I think that, in the Union, all class as well...
...first place, written laws are much safer, and more definite, than unwritten ones. They do not, it is true, have the sentiment that unwritten traditions have; but they are much more satisfactory in case of a difference of opinion. Further, they apportion duties definitely, and fix responsibility accurately--or at least, they should do so, if carefully made...
...March number of the Law Review contains the following articles: "Gifts for a Non-Charitable Purpose," John C. Gray '59; "Some Observations on the Doctrine of Proximate Cause," Prescott F. Hall '89; "Unwritten Constitutions in the United States," Emlin McLain...