The Spirit of the Common Law (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Spirit of the Common Law

HE dartmouth alumni lectureships have been established upon the theory that the influence of the intellectual life of the Col lege ought to be available, in some degree at least, to others than those who are in residence as students, - as for example, to graduates who are solicitous for some contact with the College which will help to maintain the breadth of their scholarship; or to friends who are interested in the kinds of intellectual interest for which the College wishes to stand.

The suggestion of the particular form which the project of these lectureships has taken was made in my inaugural address in 1916 when statement was made as follows.

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