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...meetings of the Athletic Association last year suggests that some new arrangements be made for the meetings next month. It is of prime importance that no more seats should be sold than the reserved section can accommodate. Although it is impossible to reserve special seats, it seems that the benches might be numbered and the tickets marked so that a man should know that a part of some particular bench is reserved for him. If this seems impracticable, the seats might be divided into plats or sections, which can be referred to on the tickets. To avoid dissatisfaction the principle...
...these students devote themselves to what in German universities is called philosophy, which includes natural history, the languages and the exact sciences. Next to this the heaviest increase has occurred in the number of the law students, the Prussian universities alone having 2558 candidates for the honors of the bench and bar. The only marked decrease has occurred in the number of students devoted to Catholic theology, while Protestant theology attracts very many students, especially when taught by evangelical professors...
...seen in taking Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 'a closet lawyer,' or one who has made the law a study rather than a profession, for a new professorship. This appointment was regarded on all sides as admirable, and great was the disappointment when Professor Holmes was transferred to the Supreme Bench. Judge Holmes is himself a good type of the class of lawyers Harvard seeks to give the country, and, so far as the resources here outlined can accomplish that end, he is eminently well qualified to strengthen and ennoble the profession in the eyes of the world...
...Brancroft Davis was yesterday nominated for the vacant judgship on the bench of the Court of Claims...
Upon entering his class-room in the Law School yesterday morning, Mr. O. W. Holmes, Jr., was greeted with hearty applause, in recognition by his pupils of his recent elevation to the Supreme Bench of Massachusetts. Mr. Holmes made a graceful speech, thanking the gentlemen for their kindness, and regretting that what he deemed his duty called him away from the service of the university so soon after he had become connected with it as instructor. The nomination of Mr. Holmes will probably be confirmed next Friday...