My First Word-List

This is an abridged version of an article printed in the March 15, 1907 issue of the Ardmore Puzzler. Using the pen name Majolica , the author was a long-time member of the National Puzzlers\u27 League, specializing in the construction of large word squares. The incident described here occurred in the early 1880s, but a similar story could be related today by frustrated competitors in word competitions that attract many entrants

What\u27s Wrong with Modern Legal Education

Some one once observed that the size of a man is measured by the size of the things that he will let bother him. Which is to say, that what concerns the legal profession, and those who aspire to enter it, is the adequacy of the job that is being done. The great majority of the lawyers have had training in the law schools of the country - very few come to the practice today via law office study. The practicing profession is, therefore, but the mirror that reflects the schools in which the lawyers were trained. If the bench and the bar give back distorted images of justice, it is only because the schools have failed to inspire devotion to high ideals and have not shown them the paths of true nobility, intellectual greatness, and real culture. One thing which should ever command your interest as alumni is your Law School. It is a part of you - you are an integral part of it. It belongs to you and the graduates who have gone before. Its concern should be your concern and its problems should be your problems. And the institution will be judged by your performance. Your success, your leadership, and your professional stature cannot but reflect credit or discredit upon the school. I should hope, therefore, that one of the things which will bother you in the years ahead, regardless of whether it be convenient or not, would be the welfare of the school in which you have been trained

Bioremediation of waste by the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris

Rhodopseudomonas palustris is a photosynthetic bacterium capable of metabolising a broad range of substrates. It is a highly robust microorganism with a high tolerance for toxic conditions, making it an ideal candidate for the remediation of waste materials by metabolism. Our societies produce large amounts of waste materials, which require processing and safe disposal, but could instead be used as resources to produce fuel and energy or sustainably recycled into new materials. R. palustris can be used to process waste glycerol (a byproduct of biodiesel manufacture), and naturally produces hydrogen gas (a clean-burning fuel) as a byproduct of this process. R. palustris could potentially be used to bioremediate other waste materials and could be engineered to manufacture other useful products from this process. This thesis reports discoveries regarding the growth of R. palustris on previously untested substrates and the engineering of R. palustris to improve its utilisation of substrates and add additional metabolic pathways for the sustainable production of valuable compounds. Firstly, new substrates including urea are identified as supporting growth of R. palustris, suggesting that it could be used to process nitrogen-rich agricultural wastes. Nitrogen runoff and pollution pose a significant environmental problem, and safe disposal represents a significant cost to industry. Using R. palustris to bioremediate these wastes, converting them to more valuable materials, would help to offset the costs of waste disposal as well as providing a sustainable source of desirable compounds. Secondly, a genetic manipulation system developed to allow the expression of heterologous genes in R. palustris is presented, and newly engineered strains of R. palustris are characterised that are capable of producing the industrially significant compound cyanophycin when R. palustris is grown on glycerol and urea. Finally, strategies are presented for the future development of R. palustris as a bioremediation system and cell-factory for sustainable biotechnology.Waste Environmental Education Research Trus

Current Controversies about Legal Education (A Survey)

Ten current questions on major controversial problems of legal education, of wide general interest and importance, were posed by the Editors of this review to leading legal educators. These questions were and are frankly difficult and controversial, but their answers are of vital importance to our system of legal education and to our society. Capsule answers given by these distinguished personages are believed to be interesting and significant.Brief answers such as these, of course, are not expected to be, nor do they pretend to be, complete or profound. Their purpose is to indicate succinctly the approach of outstanding American opinion makers to difficult problems of legal education