“My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.” LawKnownStreetsWallHusbandDegreesInvestmentUniversityFirmGrandmotherMy GrandmotherBankingInvestment BankingSyracuse Author:Buzz Bissinger
“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.” ThinkingYearsMadeHardSchoolLawChoicesThreeParentDecisionHalfCareersConsciousDecidedUniversityOccupationHarshHalf A YearSchool DaysCareers Choices Author:Lee Kuan Yew
“The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City.” WayFirstsLongStillsTwoHomeTogetherLawCitiesStudentsUniversityHumbleApartmentLong WayBasementsQuebecTwo Of UsNewlywedsHumble BeginningsLaw StudentsFirst Home Author:Jean Chretien
“We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.” NeedsMindHumansWellsBookLawHonorRoseUniversityEntertainmentDuesFormerCodeLatterHuman MindInstructionReignRecreationVinesOlivesCannonsMyrtleJustinian Author:Honore de Balzac
“My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It is not a hardening, or settling process. Education is not to teach men facts, theories, or laws; it is not to reform them, or amuse them, or to make them expert technicians in any field; it is to teach them to think, to think straight if possible; but to think always for themselves.” IfsThinkingMenMindFactsLawYoungProcessViewsTeachFieldsTheoryTrainingUniversityIntellectReformSettlingYoung ManExpertsHorizonTechnicians Author:Robert M