Word: young
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...November number of the Harvard Law Review contains three articles of importance: "The Nationality of a Juristic Person" by E. H. Young, "Federal Taxation of Interstate "Commerce" by S. E. Baldwin h.'91, "The Federal Employers' Liability Act of 1908--Is it Constitutional?" by F. W. Hacket '61, as well as the usual notes, reports of recent cases and reviews...
...particularly concerned at the present writing with one of the musical opportunities afforded. Tonight the first of the Whiting Chamber recitals will be given in the Fogg Lecture Room. These concerts are "especially designed to encourage an intelligent appreciation of music among young men who have a normal sense of its beauty." In pursuance of this idea, Mr. Whiting, assisted by various musicians of note, visits Cambridge eight times yearly to give free concerts for the exclusive benefit of the officers and students of the University. The programs, designed to appeal to the average undergraduate, are not beyond his comprehension...
...that Mr. Norton was nearing his eightieth birthday, but I was instinctively putting it off some years longer, and it needed your reminder to make me realize that it fell next month. Whatever his age, there was something in the early maturity of his power which keeps him enduringly young; the keen insight, the critical acumen, the generous sympathy, remain undimmed, unblunted, unchilled...
...disposition ever to make the moral being of the students his prime care. While his colleagues often felt that what he urged required supplementation, or even occasional antagonism, his simplicity, sweetness, and generosity won their affection as truly as his learning did their respect. To him many a young instructor has turned in a literary or personal exigency and found in his disciplined judgment and sympathetic heart help of incalculable worth. How time has been found for this costliest sort of kindness is known to Mr. Norton alone...
Another admirable thing about him was his cordial hospitality to students at his house, and his sympathy with them when they were in academic trouble. When you went to him, you felt that here was a man who might have done, when he was young, just such things as you had done (unless they were pretty bad), and that whether he had ever done them or not, you would meet in him a human being and not a bureaucrat. It was not that he could always save you or wished always to save you from academic penalties...