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...committee consisting of Professor Palmer, Mr. Wendell, Messrs. Furber, Vogel and Garrison, appointed to draft the subject of a course in Elementary Law for discussion by the Conference Committee, meet to-day at 18 Grays...
...Conference Committee has appointed a sub-committee to draft a scheme of an elementary course in common law to be added to the college studies. This idea can hardly be too highly praised, and, if carried into practice, it will meet a want long felt by every college man who has not pursued the study of law. It is to meet such a defect in college training, as the lack of a knowledge of law, that books like "Every Man His Own Lawyer," and "Woman Before the Law" have been written, - books that must fail to accomplish their...
Last year, however, at the suggestion of one of the Fellows in History, a new departure was made. At a mass meeting the students decided to establish a deliberative assembly, resembling as much as possible the English House of Commons. The proposer of the scheme prepared the draft of a constitution, on the model of one he had seen working at another college, which was adopted with some few alterations by the students. The 'Hopkins House of Commons' was incorporated. The officers were to be as follows: 1, a speaker elected twice a year, who was to have...
...letter from George Washington to Gen. Schuyler; an official document of the Confederate States signed by Jeff. Davis and Alex. H. Stevens; an invitation to Charles Sumner from President Lincoln to attend the inaugural ball. But that which will probably interest you most of all is Longfellow's first draft of Excelsior, dated September, 1841, half-past three in the morning. It is written in his usual neat hand on the back of a letter addressed to him by Charles Sumner...
...showed much enthusiasm for the work of the proposed society. Mr. Jones was elected president by acclamation, and the other offices were assigned as follows : Messrs. Cummings, D. S., and Noble, '84, vice-presidents; Mr. Roundy, '85, secretary; Mr. Hansen, '85, treasurer. Committees were appointed to draft a constitution and select a design for a shingle. The scheme of work proposed in yesterday's CRIMSON was adopted. It was decided to hold the first public declamations and recitations by the club, in Sever 11, on November 18. The next meeting of the club will be held on Tuesday, November...