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...State inspector has expressed his opinion that, on the whole, the college buildings at Harvard compare very favorably with others throughout the State. College House alone he mentioned as needing some better provision for escape. The buildings may compare favorably in this respect with others of the State, but that is not saying much in favor of those other buildings...
...plan was, that to reach these balconies entrance would have to be forced, in a great many cases, into the student's room which communicated with the balcony, as the occupant of the room might be away. This would consume much valuable time. If the balconies were extended the whole length of the building, there would be less fear of this danger, but such long balconies would be as ungainly as permanent ladders...
...Ohio river is still rising along its entire length, and hundreds of families have been driven from their homes at Pittsburg, Wheeling and other towns. Pomeroy, Ohio, is completely under water, and its whole population has been compelled to seek safety on the hilltops...
...remarks in regard to this method to which were made by President Eliot in his annual report, are quoted and then the writer continues : "It will thus be seen that the whole influence of the school is against 'cheap' lawyers. 'A noble profession nobly filled' is dinned into the ears of the future advocate till he becomes ashamed of many whom he sees practising in the courts. The progressive changes in the regulations, of the school cut off many inferior men, but their places have been readily filled by those whom the school will be proud to send into...
...sometimes been urged against the Harvard school that it deals too much with theories and not enough with the practice of the law, and there is probably more truth in this criticism than is generally admitted in Cambridge; still the professors have, with but one exception in the whole history of the school, been taken from the ranks of the active profession. The later tendency, however, may be seen in taking Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 'a closet lawyer,' or one who has made the law a study rather than a profession, for a new professorship. This appointment was regarded...