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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...people who have heard a great deal about the Harvard case system of studying law but do not know how it originated, will see why so much importance is attached to Professor Langdell's services when they understand that he was the one who introduced the system and under whose direction it has been carried on at Harvard...
...training by "employing more men to watch the players," so as to prevent foul and vicious playing. What sane man can dispute President Eliot's conclusion that "a game which needs to be so watched is not fit for genuine sportsmen"? Nor will it be any easier for men whose livelihood or fame or animal gratifications do not depend upon the game, to disagree with his verdict that it is "unfit for college use." In this be speaks as the educator, mindful of his duty to the young men under his care and to their parents; farther on he speaks...
...cent. It then declined somewhat, and from 1859 to 1864 it was again in the neighborhood of 50 per cent; but after the Civil War it declined for four years to about 44 per cent. This decline was probably due to the return from the War of young men whose education had been interrupted. They naturally entered the professional schools. In 1868-69 the percentage of College students was again at 50 per cent; but from that limit it rose gradually, during a period of fourteen years, until in 1882-83 it reached 65 per cent. These fourteen years cover...
Among the persons whose names appear this year on the petition to the Massachusetts Legislature, asking that municipal suffrage be granted to women are: S. F. Smith '29, Professor F. G. Peabody, Professor George H. Palmer, and Professor N. S. Shaler...
...John Edmund Randolph, George Wythe, James McClurg, and J. F. Mercer; Columbia (King's) two - Alexander Hamilton and Gouverneur Morris; College of Philadelphia two - Thomas Mifflin and Hugh Williamson; Oxford (Eng.) - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney; Glasgow R. D. Spaight; Edinburgh, St. Andrews and Glasgow - James Wilson. Of the thirty-nine whose names were appended to the document, seventeen were college bred...