Word: laws
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...great collections of Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities which it has hitherto bee impossible even to unpack. The biological department has completed its "Vivarium," and has filled it with all manner of beasts and creeping things, so that it has become one of the chief attractions to visitors. The law school and the new dormitories are now in course of erection. And now, within a week, the Provost has announced an anonymous gift of $200,000, which is to be expended in building a physical laboratory...
...law school building will be perhaps the most distinguished of all these additions. Its cost is estimated at $400,000, and it will be the finest building ever erected for the purpose. Dedicatory exercises are being arranged for the week of Washington's Birthday, at which all the justices of the U. S. Supreme Court, besides many distinguished attorneys, have been invited to be present...
...ninety-two. While at College his room-mate was Cornelius C. Felton, afterwards president of Harvard, and among his class-mates were Edmund Quincy, former president Stearns of Amherst, and Bishop Lee of Delaware. In 1833 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, but he soon gave up the law to become head-master of the Boston Latin School. During the fifteen years in which he served in this position, he came in contact with a most remarkable set of boys. A few of them were Mayor Quincy of Boston, Rev. Dr. J. W. Thayer of the Divinity School...
...Wood 2L., has been elected an editor of the Law Review...
...opportunities for public speaking, which have heretofore been lacking. Hitherto the various debating organizations have been more or less in conflict, but, under the new system, they will all work together with the Yale Union as the central organization of the University. At the meetings of the union, parliamentary law is strictly observed and a careful record of each meeting is kept. This year a great deal of enthusiasm has been manifested by the members of the union and the sharpness and vigor of their debates show that Yale has plenty of good debating material. Compared with the meetings...