Word: methods
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...rewarding politicians. Many lucrative offices are in fact created with the sole purpose of remunerating important office-seekers, who seldom consider their usefulness to the government, but merely their own selfish interests. So generally recognized has this system become that the Civil Service was considered in Baltimore a method of charitable employment for paupers and criminals who were unable to obtain work elsewhere...
...best method, Mr. Morse said, for studying the preparation and trial of cases is to attend prominent trials in court, and watch the counsel conduct cases of different types. Contrary to some views held at present, the jury system is the best one that can be devised. In trials by jury a lawyer should prepare his facts carefully and above all-promptly; while a personal knowledge of the witnesses is essential...
...proportions of speeches in court, so that bad results are effected under the one-hour limit rule. Selecting from a mass of evidence the one or two vital points upon which the case will turn is as important in trials as strategy in a battle. Generally the most effective method of examining witnesses is to assume that the witness is trying to tell the truth, and find out or get him to admit, the points on which he is mistaken...
Following are the contents of the first number, which will be 16 pages in length: "The Debating Method," by Governor L. F. C. Garvin of Rhode Island, Amherst '68; "Review of the Yale-Princeton Debate on American Empire"; "The Ffteenth Amendment Debated by Pennsylvania and Virginia"; "Analysis and Argument of Timely Questions...
North American Review--"Our Antiquated Method of Electing a President," by S. Newcomb...