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...Hall was already filled, when President Eliot introduced the speaker. He said in part: Our system of justice, the Common Law, is of Germanic origin and is a flexible and living law of a thousand years' growth. While the Roman law is older, still it shows no such uninterrupted continuity, no such persistent individuality. Our system is founded on principles, which were evident in early English justice and which, though changed and developed, have, in general character, remained constant. Early justice was rough, and the county-court, perhaps, a disorderly public-meeting; yet in its publicity lay the root...
...Review. Vol. XVII, which will appear November 1, there will be articles by Professor Langdell on the Northern Securities Case; by Inglis Clark, Chief Justice of Tasmania, on the Supremacy of the Judiciary under the Constitutions of the United States and Australia: and by E. Parmalee Prentice, on the Origin of the Right to Interstate Commerce...
...ambassadors to Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Austria, all of whom are Harvard men. An article by George Foot Moore defines at some length the "Field of Undenominational School of Theology." A description of the Summer Engineering Camp at Squam Lake follows, with a short account of its origin. The situation, methods of work, and daily routine of the Camp are all touched upon. Other contributions are "Where Harvard, College Might Have Been," by Robert S. Rantoul '53, "The Printing of the Doctor's Dissertation," by John Henry Wright. "The "Stillman Infirmary," by Clarence John Blake...
...Geological Conference to be held in the Geological Museum at 8 o'clock, this evening Professor W. M. Davis will deliver a lecture on "The Green River Tertiary of Wyoming." The lecture will consider the origin of these regions, concerning which there has been much discussion of recent years. Professor Davis visited this territory last summer, and at the lecture will use some lantern slides to illustrate the characteristic outcrops...
...Story of Horn and Rimenhild." Countless questions, he said, concerning the story and scene of action of Horn and Rimenhild, have been asked over and over again and still no satisfactory conclusions as regards these points have been drawn. In fact there is no definite theory of the origin and development of the story, and of the several extant volumes of the work only two are serviceable in showing the character of Horn. The scene of action especially is uncertain and even, now the two opposing views both find vigorous support. The Isle of Man, however, and the neighboring coast...