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GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY?Francis L. Wellman ?Macmillan ($4.00). This volume is addressed "to the tens of thousands of men that are called each year to serve their first term in the jury box." Its object is stated by Author Wellman to be "to acquaint jurors with the profound importance and dignity of their membership in that ancient and honorable institution of Trial by Jury; to lay before them the duties, privileges and prerogatives of a juror, to open their minds to the fallacies of human testimony, the whys and wherefores of intentional perjury, the methods by which truth...
...world," says the author, "is already too full of moral lectures and serious reformers; and while I trust my efforts may prove instructive to the uninitiated, my ambition is also to be hailed a welcome raconteur." The public press is daily informing Mr. Wellman that this ambition has been gratified. One Heywood Broun of The New York World, in a column devoted to this book, is on record to the effect that after reading Gentleman of the Jury, he regretted for the first time that the laws of New York State exempted newspaper men from jury duty...
...Wellman, in the course of 40 years of active practice, has tried more than 1,000 cases before juries. He is also deeply versed in legal bibliography. In the present volume, he has drawn with discrimination upon both his experience and his learning...
...arts, announced yesterday the election of seven of the ten highest ranking students from the Senior class in the Engineering School to the society. The men elected were: George Hay Bascom 4E.S. of Sparkill, N. Y., Robert Brandt 4E.S. of Jamaica Plain, Richard Jenney 4E.S. of Stony Brook, Bertram Wellman 4E.S. of Springfield and Charles Reimar Wohrman 4E.S. of Sarremaa Esthonia...
...Jary, Miss Kathleen MiddletonPaul, a Carpenter, W. C. Treat '23The Innkeeper in 1845, Miss Ethel WoodworthThe Members of the Caveau in 1845, R. C. Burrell '24 Alexander Hamilton '25 Whitney Cromwell '26"The Life of Man"PrologueThe Being in Gray, Willian C. Jackson 1G.First SceneFive Old Women, Miss June Wellman Miss Ethel Woodworth Miss Persis McClennan Miss Dorothy Kuhns Miss Elizabeth GatlinThe Doctor, Philip Wardner '26The Father, R. C. Burrell '24The Kinspeople:An Elderly Lady, Miss Ethel WoodworthHer Husband, Alexander Hamilton '25Their Daughter, Miss Helen CoolidgeAnother Woman, Miss Loretto JordanTwo Young Men, Howard Phillips '23 W. S. Wilson '26Second SceneThe...