Word: existence
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...training given in the Harvard Law School is especially valuable because of the independent atmosphere of the Massachusetts judiciary. Here, too, law and equity exist side by side instead of the codes of other states which fuse the two. The United States courts, however, have a large equity practice, and, as most of the important cases are tried in these courts, a knowledge of equity is almost indispensable...
...writing the above I am actuated by no feeling of vindictiveness. My object in writing is to call attention to an evil which has no right to exist; to condemn a policy which I know is impairing the usefulness of a good society...
...request is granted, the men will feel bound in honor to do nothing which would tend to dishonor our University. Games with professionals would teach the nine to accept defeat with resignation. They would learn to control their feelings; and thus a better condition of affairs would exist when we meet with defeat upon the college ball field...
...There seems to exist a practically unanimous opinion among the students that they are handicapped by restrictions laid upon their preparation for athletic contests with other colleges...
...election of officers and the reading of reports from the various committees and from the superintendent. The past year has been the most successful in the history of the society. Under the system that prevailed up to the beginning of the present year, considerable dissatisfaction was felt to exist, and to remove this the present system was devised by the superintendent, Mr. Waterman, and adopted by the society. The wisdom of this change is shown by the fact that the amount of business transacted this year has been sixty per cent greater than last year. In some departments the prices...