One LThe law-student author recounts the workload, conflicts, pressures, anxieties, relationships, and educational content of the critical and difficult first year at Harvard's prestigious and demanding law school |
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Once Jones has responded, the professor— as Socrates did with his students—
will question Jones about what he has said, pressing him to make his answers
clearer. If Jones says that the judge found that the contract had been breached,
the ...
Once Jones has responded, the professor— as Socrates did with his students—
will question Jones about what he has said, pressing him to make his answers
clearer. If Jones says that the judge found that the contract had been breached,
the ...
Page 136
Most of the professors were loath to grant us any kind of praise in the large
classes, no matter how extraordinary was a student's performance. Their thinking,
I guess, was that to do so would only increase the resentments in an environment
...
Most of the professors were loath to grant us any kind of praise in the large
classes, no matter how extraordinary was a student's performance. Their thinking,
I guess, was that to do so would only increase the resentments in an environment
...
Page 138
I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of professors I saw in the
student dining hall during the year. The rest stuck to the faculty eating place. And
not many of the teachers seemed to walk through the underground tunnels that ...
I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of professors I saw in the
student dining hall during the year. The rest stuck to the faculty eating place. And
not many of the teachers seemed to walk through the underground tunnels that ...
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| Title | One L |
| Author | Scott Turow |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Lawyers & Judges Harvard Law School Law / General Law / Legal Education Law students Law students - Massachusetts - Biography Law students/ Massachusetts/ Biography Turow, Scott |
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