Word: leaching
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Leach's communication, printed in a recent issue of the CRIMSON, entirely misrepresents the decision of the Supreme Court in the Steel Corporation case, and cannot be allowed to go unanswered. "This court", says Mr. Leach, "has reasoned substantially as follows: the purpose of law is the furtherance of the public welfare; when, therefore, a statute which usually accomplishes this end fails to react to the benefit of the public in a particular case, the fundamental purpose of the law should be considered above its mere verbal provisions. In other words, the public weal supersedes all law." The Supreme Court...
...they claim no such right. Their task is to apply legislation to the facts; and if in any case a statute appears capable of more than one interpretation, to construe it as they think the legislature meant it to be construed, subject to general principles of construction. Mr. Leach forgets that the public weal is a thing, concerning which there can be no knowledge, but only opinion; and that our government is based on the idea that we should rely on the opinion of our representative legislatures and not of the courts...
...this special case these principles have reacted to the detriment of the public welfare which they were purposed to benefit. We were at a loss to reconcile our legal doctrines with our public interest. For the solution of this problem we have the Supreme Court to thank. W. B. LEACH...
...Efficiency" Jones, the leading part, will be played by W. B. Leach '22, while M. H. Dill '20 will fill the role of charming and romantic Ella...
...Adelung-Golden, Harvard 5 Goodhue-Zeo, Harvard 6 Education 12a, Sever 20 Fine Arts 1a, Fogg Lect.-rm French 1: Mr. Raiche's sect. 1, Sever 23 Mr. Cook's sect. 2, Sever 24 French 13, Sever 20 German 8, Sever 24 German 25, Sever 17 Government 4: Anderson-Leach, Sever 29 Lederman-Zuloaga, Sever 30 Greek B II, Sever 18 History 7, Sever 17 History 14, Sever 5 Italian 10, Sever 6 Mathematics A sect. 4, Sever 35 Mathematics 2a I, Sever 36 Mathematics 5a II, Sever 6 Mathematics 12, Sever 20 Mineralogy 12, Mineral Lab. Philosophy A7, Andover...