Word: dane
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much-asked question now is, what will be done with Dane Hall when the new law school building is completed. It has been proposed that it would be a good plan to organize a college club, with quarters in the old law hall, where the leading periodicals would be kept. A billiard hall could be opened, and coffee rooms would furnish pleasant places of commerce for the fellows. The plan seems rather impracticable to us, but it certainly would be a very delightful institution if it could possibly be successfully established...
...Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, has continued to increase in the number of students and professors until today it is one of the chief departments of the university and second to no law school in the country in point of excellence in instruction and method. To Nathan Dane, an early resident of Massachusetts. is due the credit of aiding in the erection of the first building for the study of law at Harvard. In October, 1831, he advanced the sum of five thousand dollars toward the erection of a "Law College," and offered a loan of two thousand dollars more...
...desire to make the outside imposing he has not neglected the convenience and comfort of those who are to use it, so that after the 1st of September, 1883, the Harvard law student will no longer be obliged to point out to the visitor the diminutive Dane Hall as the law school of America's largest university...