Template:Did you know nominations/Hoffman's Course of Legal Study
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The result was: promoted by Kingsif (talk) 11:10, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
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Hoffman's Course of Legal Study
- ... that Hoffman's Course of Legal Study is designed to take between five and seven years, but John Neal says he did it in sixteen months? Source: Page 167 of this book says "David Hoffman ... brought out his 'Course of Legal Study,' which, according to his calculation, ... would require either five or seven years .... Within the next following fifteen or sixteen months, I had gone through with the whole course."
- Alt1... that after Watergate, the legal profession turned to the 19th century ethics of David Hoffman because the President's "lawyers [had] blindly followed the demands of their client"? Source: page 574 of this
5x expanded by Dugan Murphy (talk). Self-nominated at 21:40, 7 April 2021 (UTC).
- comment only ... someone said they had done it. Surely the article should say that. The article implies its a fact whereas its merely an unproven boast IMO. Victuallers (talk) 22:43, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
- Good point! I just edited the hook with this in mind and now will edit the article in the same fashion. Dugan Murphy (talk) 16:14, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
- I have done so much work that I realise that I have turned into a co-author. I have offered a new hook and suggest we need a new reviewer please. Very interesting subject. Victuallers (talk) 09:55, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Victuallers: Thanks for all your work on the article. I think your new hook (ALT1), reflecting part of your recent addition to the article, is a more compelling hook than my original one. I did modify it slightly to answer who "they" are and to correct the century. We await a review! Dugan Murphy (talk) 02:48, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
