Word: civics
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While men have every advantage in courses which treat on politics, finance, history, and to some extent, constitutional and international law, the principles of the common law, which every man at one time or another exercises in his business, or civic relations, and as litigant or juror, the college neglects to teach...
...extending from November to June. Instruction is divided into four sections, Administrative, Diplomatic, Economic and Financial, and the General Section. The latter department would doubtless be of most value to the American student, as the aim of the others is more confined, being chiefly directed to fit for the civic and diplomatic service of France. In this section, devoted to Public Law and History, the instruction includes: Comparative Civil Legislation, (by Prof. Flach); Constitutional Law of France, England and the U. S. (M. Boutney, member of the Institute); Study of the Constitutions of Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy, (Lebon...
...relations sustained between government and university are so harmonious. In return for municipal care and protection, she grants our citizens the use of a library of 192,000 volumes, free lectures on the arts, sciences, or literature in her Sanders Theatre, and the use of her magnificent halls for civic purposes. We are indebted to her for kindly courtesies to distinguished guests, notably of late, when our French visitors, the descendants of Lafayette, Rochambeau, De Grasse, and others, our Revolutionary allies, under the escort of the representatives of the city government, were received by the president, faculty, and students...