Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ascertained since the death recently of Dr. William Goddard of the class of 1815. Mr. Allen was born at Medfield in 1794, and his only surviving classmates in the class of 1817 are George Bancroft, who was born in Worcester, October 6, 1800, and Samuel Sewall, the well-known lawyer, who was born...
Hong Yen Chang, the first Chinese lawyer, was admitted to the bar at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., last Thursday. He came to this country in 1872, and studied at Yale and the Columbia law schools...
...youngest graduate of Yale so far known is Charles Chauncey, 1792, who graduated at the age of fifteen years, twenty-six days, and afterwards became a leading lawyer in Philadelphia...
...lecture, last night, in Jefferson Physical Laboratory, on "The Training of the College and the Law School as a preparation for the profession of the Law," Mr. Abbott said that the common idea that the main business of the lawyer consisted in trying cases in court was entirely erroneous. The great characteristic of our age is the tendency to combination, resulting in our railroads and other corporations. As these corporate bodies have increased in size and importance, their relations with the state and with individuals have grown more and more complex, until now men of great legal knowledge must...
...forty years has rendered it possible. Every man must choose his occupation with reference to his own natural gifts. If wealth is the only object of life, not literature but all the professions must be ruled out. Enormous gains can only be hoped for in commerce. The most celebrated lawyers seldom have an income of over $50,000, and the most famous clergymen and physicians rarely receive more than $20,000 annually. The thing to be considered is not the maximum prize but the chance of success. Literature is comparatively free from the risks of failure to which the merchant...