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...pettifogging lawyer of today has his strongest friend and aid in the weak juryman whom he can wheadle into returning any verdict he may desire. The speaker declaimed against the prevalent custom of forcing a verdict by compelling the jury tostay out until a verdict is reached. Mr. McInnes, L. S., closed the negative. The speaker did not believe in trial by jury and thought that a jury is a body that is very easily influenced. "Better a new jury than a wrong verdict." We do not at present need the jury, but we should keep it to protect...
...this and other courses the speaker was confident that in a few years we would become large exporters of iron, supplanting England in this respect. The lecture closed with a description of the open-hearth process by which the so-called Martin steel is manufactured, and an account of the present condition of the iron industry in this country...
...fifth of the course of lectures before the Historical Society was delivered last evening by Dr. Channing. Before the speaker began, Mr. Hart, the president of the society, announced that the remaining lectures of the series will be given in Sanders Theatre...
...house in which I was born is situated on Lake street, number 17. It is near the residence of the Hon. John G. Carlisle, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and an intimate professional friend of my father. In this house I have resided all my life, excepting the six last years,-two spent at Exeter, four at Cambridge. Graduating at the Covington Grammar school in 1876 and the High school in 1878, I spent two years at Exeter, preparatory to entering Harvard. I passed at the July examination, 1880, with honors and conditions alike invisible. Travelling in Italy during...
...Arthur Wellesley Peel, the new speaker of the English House, is a graduate of Eton and Oxford...