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...many respects this dinner was the most successful event in the history of the Association. President Eliot was present, and responded to the first toast of the evening, "Alma Mater" Hon. John Bigelow replied for "American Literature"; and in response to the toast in honor of the Bench, Judge Holland mentioned a long list of Harvard graduates who had attained high judicial positions...
...system, and from them suggest a third, is made without any presumption to judge of which is the best, and is only offered in the hope that the upholders of the new system will explain its workings and ends, because the school does not have that confidence of the Bench and Bar in this Commonwealth which it needs and is bound to obtain if possible, nor has it that confidence of the students which is necessary and desirable to its highest usefulness...
...Grammar Schools, and a few hints on the proper method of shooting the young idea in this direction may be not out of place. To carry out the humorous idea of the book, the instructor should lay down his opinions as decisively and finally as the judge on the bench. He is to assume dogmatism in its most absolute phase, and establish a terrorism over the minds of his pupils. Is it for a learner to state objections? By no means. Shall we doubt anything? Not at all. But, to carry dogmatism to its extreme verge, he is at stated...
...which he mastered every subject submitted for his examination in all its parts and relations, and was able to reach conclusions with almost unerring judgment. He had eminently legal and judicial qualities of mind which placed him in the first rank at the bar, as well as upon the bench. To these qualities he added the graces and amenities of a gentleman, which attached to him a wide circle of personal friends. He died at the age of sixty-five, in the midst of professional success, and in the full enjoyment of the confidence and respect of all who knew...
AGED PROFESSOR (to student at end of bench). Why is yonder organ like unto a widow...