Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University courses are directed by the government. You are forced to follow the plan of study fixed upon for the examinations for your baccalaureat. The University alone confers the degree of bachelor; therefore you must conform to its programme. Without receiving this degree one can become neither lawyer nor judge nor physician. The degree of bachelor is the door which opens nearly all the most honorable careers...
...classmates has said, all that distinguished him while in college, from his fellows, was his knowledge of literature and his skill in boxing. As soon as he entered the Law School he attracted general attention by his industry and knowledge. Some time after he became a practising lawyer he was persuaded, much against his inclination, to enter politics, and since then his fame, which began with his oration on the Fourth of July, 1845, has spread over our own country and Europe. Many proofs has he given of his worth as a man; but the people, by the sadness that...
...effects of a poor memory are likely to be felt more in our future course than they ever have been yet. Whatever may be a man's occupation, a good memory cannot help being of importance to him. A lawyer will find it very desirable, if not absolutely indispensable, to remember, at once and without continual reference to the books, those cases and decisions to which he wishes to refer. Of course, a good memory cannot take the place of forcible and clear argumentative powers, but it can be made a powerful auxiliary to them, and most of our eminent...
...fact or suggestion not to be lost without injury. The life of professional men, too, presents many opportunities when the employment of a mode of writing four or five times quicker than any other will afford the much-needed hour or half-hour for rest and enjoyment. The lawyer in his cases, the minister in his sermons, the business man in his records and copies, the author in his daily jottings and quotations from books too rare or expensive to be within his purchasing power, - all these may find a most valuable help from this "ready writing." Indeed, everybody seems...
...dangerous thing, and though it may bewilder for the moment, like the ignis fatui, it leads on in a sort of shadow dance without any culminating force. Your popular, because politic, man in college seldom becomes the really popular and praiseworthy citizen, the beloved minister, the trusted and honest lawyer, or the most relied-upon physician. Nor is he always the most trusted in society; he is apt to wish to be all things to all men, and for this reason there will be many who refuse to confide in him. He is the surface man of his time...