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1-5 Harv. L. Sch. Rec. 1 (1946-1948)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec1500 and id is 1 raw text is: The VOL. 1, NO. I ASSOTCLTION HEAD URGES ALUMNI ACT R.H. Smith, Treasurer of Graduates Organization Seeks Improved Liaison Failure of the administration to encourag the active organization of graduating classe and maintenance of a vigorous alumni move ment among the graduates of the Law Schoo were criticisms made in a recent interview b Reginald Heber Smith, LI.B. '14, leader of the Boston Bar and Treasurer of the Harvard Law School Association. Mr. Smith described as lost opportunity this neglect of the alumni bod painting to the success of the reunion progran. of his own class and their eagerness to partic pate in such activity. The creation of an active Alumni Office the School with a full-time Secretary to coordir ate the activities of class secretaries and sup plement their egorts with some type of regula publication would be decisive steps in this d rection. This criticism of the present lack of syster and the suggested remedy is in no way a reflec tion on the present Harvard Law School A sociation, Mr. Smith made clear, but is a propo al for marked expansion upon it as a frar work. The Harvard Law School Association at prr ent comprises 4,000 members, headed by Robe P. Patterson, Secretary of War, and has mad many notable contributions to the welfare the Law School. It is currently enagaged in campaign to secure for the School a dormito for exclusive use of the law students. By the efforts of this Association a capit account of more than $52,000 has been accur ulated. The income from this account, pl that from annual dues and contributions pr vides the Association with a fund which placed at the disposal of the Dean for ma purposes: as many as ten first year scholarshi of $400 each, the purchase of rare books I the library, publication of the Quinquenn Law School Directory and payments for d prominent members of the Law School Facul At the time Dean Emeritus Rosoe Pound tired as active head of the School the Assoc tion initiated a campaign to provide a Rose -7Po- und air a-La aid iaised 50000 to b gin the endowment fund. It was in July, 1886 that a small group Boston lawyers conceived the idea of an Alu ni Association to be made up of Harvard L School graduates. Darwin E. Ware LI.B. was appointed chairman of an organizing co mittee which included Louis D. Brandeis LI '77. The graduates of the School all over country were circularized as to their inter in such an undertaking, and the enthusia response led to the call for an organization meeting which convened in the rooms of Boston Bar Association on September 23, 18 Louis D. Brandeis was elected Secretary tern and committees were appointed to no inate officers and draft a constitution. T work was shortly completed and presented the first general meeting of the new Associat on November 5, 1886. The fall'of 1886 had seemed particularly propriate to the founders because the Univer was celebrating the 250th anniversary of founding of Harvard College. The meet on November 5 was made the occasion fo gathering of distinguished leaders in the of law, and after the business of voting on constitution and electing officers had been posed of, the Association and its guests mo to Sanders Theatre to hear a stirring orat by judge Oliver Wendell Holmes. From th (Continued on page three) KENDALL HO US NO 1V AJAILABL Facility May Be Used Free6 For Group or Social Purpos Clarification of the status of Kendall Ho the Law School's semi-social center, was ach ed today through information released by ingston Hall, Vice-Dean. Dean Hall h that wider use of the premises will result I a more general understanding of the uses which this facility may be put. Meetings, bridge parties, teas, informal dar private parties, informal dinner parties, law club arguments may be held in Kew House. Reservations for the use of the var rooms may be had through calling the chair during the forenoon at KIR. 3292. Such should be made a week in advance. It was emphasized that while the Law W have a priority on the use of Kendall Ho and are in general operational control, an ganization or individual in the School ma the building and its equipment. Permission to serve beer or intoxicating erages must be obtained through the Dean's office, but it was intimated that so as the privilege was not abused it would be tended without embarassing inquiry. Chaperones are required for mixed functions held by bachelor students, but if bachelor is unable to procure them the Wives organization will recommend one. one is to be permitted on the second flio any time (because research is conducted by Professor and Mrs. Glueck). (Continued on page three) Harvard Law School Record .........TCAMBRIDGE. MASS., WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1946 PRICE TEN CENTS Dorr, Boston Lawyer, OQffers Reasons 1/7hyLandis Nesikned An eminent ,mesber of the Boston Bar, the the eventual aim of the betterment of the con ( author was recommended by Prof. 1. M. Ma- ditions of mankind. qnire and approved by Mr. Landis himsell for Although Jim Landis has been but a short the writing of this article, time and, over a decidedly interrupted period, .j In educational circles and, indeed, in some Dean of the Harvard Law School, nevertheless b business circles there has been considerable in that meager period he has demonstrated his ) speculation as to why James M. Landis should very real ability for organization, and the ser- retire as Dean of tire Harvard Law School to vice that he Ias thus rendered Harvard is out- go to tle Civil Aeronautics Board as Chairman. standing. B ;e To be Dean of the Law School of Harvard Uni- It must not be lost sight of that although he th es versity is not only a great honor, but it has al- is a quiet man and gives the appearance of T c- ways been regarded like an appointment to having a somewhat diffident nature, neverthe- ti a1 the Supreme Court, as a life job and the very less his ideal conception would be to devote his P Y pinnacle to which any man of learning or ability life to a larger public service in the best sense en e could aspire. To leave the rarefied atmosphere and with all that such service implies. That C w of this cloistered intellectual position for the such a service should carry with it the power M' a rough and tumble of an administrative Govern. and authority to get things done, that it has the Y, ment position would seem to hold no fascin- romantic appeal of being the instrument and ft i ation for a person of Dean Landis' marked intel- representative of the greatest republic in the an ci- lectual ability, world, that it carries the satisfaction of a job it Hovever, the real answer to the question may well done that benefits all humanity must all p at be found in the character and capacity of the he things that lie very close to tre heart of this n- man himself. Graduating from Princeton in very sensitive and great man.. P 1921 and receiving his LI.B. from Harvard in Therefore, it should cause no surprise or won- th ar 1924 and his S.J.D. from Harvard in 1925, Dean der that at a sacrifice in remuneration and atn li Landis' whole career except for brief intervals of very real sacrifice in living conditions Dean teaching has been devoted to responsible execu- Landis should take on the tremendously impor- b r tive positions with the United States Govern- tant job of being the executive officer of the e -ment. Lest we lose sight of these various activ- Civil Aeronautics Board. Aviation is, indeed, in p ities they are listed below: its infancy, and, as the designs on the drawing S- Expert attached to House Committee of boards of aircraft of today are obsolete to- h a- Interstate Commerce in drafting of Se- morrowv so are the rules and regulations which b curities Act, 1933. must be arranged for the orderly control of n es- Member of Federal Trade Commission, airships and routes and rates and facilities be rt 1933-34; ever changing to keep the pace with the rapid ir de Member of Securities and Exchange Corn- changes of the drafting room. of mission, 1934-37 and Chairman 1935-37; What a wrld of service lies ahead for the 8 i a Member of National Power Policy Comn- man willing to undertake the administration ry mission, 1937; of this new means of transportation. What Member of President's Emergency Board power lies ahead for such a man of good will tl on National Railway Strike, 1938; simply and fairly to lay down the rules for both m- Trial Examiner, U.S. Department of commercial and civilian aviation. Let your lus Labor, 1939; imagination trifle with the notion that the most ro- Consultant, National Advisory Committee, distant point from Cambridge is at most sixty is 1940; hours of flying under present conditions and ny Consultant, War Department, 1941; then consider that the engineers are already Ps U.S. Regional Director (First Corps Area), designing and preparing to make into realities for Office of Civilian Defense, 1941; speed in the air that will be faster than sound. ial Director of Civilian Defense, 1942; Take a map of the world and draw straight the Minister, Director of American Economic lines from Washington through the capitals Ity. Operations in the Middle East, 1943-45. of all the leading countries of the world and re- From this it will be seen that the great bulk then suppose that you were the person in Wash- ia- of Dean Landis' experience and training has ington who held in his hand the destinies of :oe been in impoirtant .poiions ,f _pnhlic trust- of thoe hundreds-of shousand.of gaople.a.s.t tt,. c far-reaching significance in the service of the millions of pounds of freight and express that United States Government. In many of these will eventually traverse these lines. And then of positions there have been new trails to blaze, ask yourself, would you rather be Dean of the i- new hitherto untried methods to develop, new Harvard Law School with the lifetime security aw horizons of imagination to be envisaged, to be of that well paid position and all the social joy '55, sought after and to be translated into realities, and distinction that is so much an important am- All of these fields as Dean Landis has explored part of university life? Or would you rather be l.B. them have developed the very real executive the potentate of that illimitable empire which the powers that lie within the man himself. Almost is the air space of the world? Under all the .ret all of these positions have been implemented circumstances, Dean Landis' conclusion seems stic with the great power of the United States of a natural decision for him to reach. nal America and many of them have led him to Dudley H. Dorr of Hale and Dorr 886. glamorous, unexplored fields of progress with 60 State Street, Boston o- GRISWOLDIFa rhis to VARIED ISSUES School's Administrative Head ap- rsity Pledges Retention of Standards the the Maintenance of the high standards of the ing Harvard Law School during the postwar period r a ~te' field is the immediate tas faced by Erwin N. Gris- the wold who on July 1 wasappointed as dean of dis- the law school to succeed James M. Landis. dved Despite the fact that the school is faced with tion record enrollment figures which will place a tre- here mendous strain on the law school facilities, Dean Griswold has no illusions as to the weight of the burden that will fall on the faculty and facilities and promises returning veterans that E every effort will be made to maintain prewar standards. ERWIN N. GRISWOLD ,E Dean Griswold who has just passed his forty- second birthday was graduated from Oberlin TWJTO PROFESSORIAL 61 College in 1925. He then attended Harvard Law School where he achieved an excellent aca- CH41RS AJJARDED Ses demic rating and became president of the Har- Ralph Baker Given Fessenden; yard Law Review Association. He received his Ouse, LI.B. degree in 1928, and then studied for his E. M errick Dodd Gets lFeld hiev- S.J.D. degree which he received from the law Appointment of Professors Ralph Jackson Liv- school in 1929. During the same year he was Baker and Edwin Merrick Dodd to endowed opes admitted to the Ohio Bar and for a time was professorships constitutes another milestone in from connected with the Cleveland firm of Griswold, the academic careers of these distinguished es to Green, Palmer, and Hadden. scholars. After a short period of time had elapsed, Dean Effective July 1 Professor Baker became Weld nces, Griswold left private practice and became an Professor of Law and Professor Dodd assumed and attorney in the office of the Solicitor General, the Fessenden Professorship. idall and later held a post as special assistant to the Of the ten endowed professorships now cur- rious United States Attorney Generalin Washington, rently held, the Weld professorship wihch goes rman D. C. He occupied these positions in the public to Professor Baker is one of the oldest. The calls service from 1929 to 1934. In 1934 lie returned late Oliver Wendell Holmes was its first holder. to Harvard as an assistant professor of law and Following in order were James B. Thayer, Sam. Vives was elevated to a full professorship in 1935. His uel Williston, and Joseph Warren and Edward ouse, appointnent as Charles Stebbins Faircild pro- Warren. Since the death of Professor Edward y or- fessor of comparative law was announced last H. Warren (The Bull) in 1943 this professor- y use spring and became effective July 1. ship has been held open. Professor Baker pre- Dean Griswold is the author of Spendthrift viossly held the Fessenden professorship. e Trusts, published in 1936 and Cases on Fed. The Fessenden professorship, which now goes Vice- eral Taxation, published in 1940. to Professor Dodd, is the latest of the endowed long professorships, beginning in 1941 with Professor e cx- Students interested in working on the Baker. Record are notified of a meeting in the Rec- The other endowed professorships and the social ord offices on third floor of Austin Hall at men now holding them are as follows: Fair- f the 2 p.m., Monday, July 22, 1946. Candidates child Professor, Dean Erwin N. Griswold; Law for either editorial or business positions will Story Professor, Thomas Reed Powell; Bussey No be welcome. First and second term men are Professor, Warren A. Seavey; Royall Professor, ar at invited, but they are not eligible for Board Edmund M. Morgan; Dane Professor, Austin there positions until they have completed the sec- W. Scott; Bemis Professor of International Law, ond term wih a 62 average or above. Manley 0. Hudson; and Langdell Professor, svZechariah Chafee. aLZGvH RANKERS NA4MED FOR SE VIE [, STUDENT BO4ARD Grade Averages Better rhan 73 Win Adviser A.sitions For Nine Albert L. Goldman, '46, Chairman of the Boird of Student Advisers today announced :hinames of nine new members of the Board. b'ase selected for the School's second most dis- -nuished student organization are Daniel F. ai'riser and Edmund J. Skorupski, last term- rs'; Lawrence M. Levinson, James W. Perkins, Clde 0. Martz, Robert Krones and John E. Nf sengale Ii, third termers. New members of the Board are selected rom those having grade averages between 73.00 ail 74.49 and who have met the minor require- nrtt of having participated in the Ames Coin- etition for at least two terms. In order to remain on the Board members rr' required to maintain averages of 67 during theterm following their selection. Thereafter o specific scholastic standard must be met. .Members of the Board are expected to spend letween thirty and forty hours a week working .xrfusively for the Board while the Ames Com- etition is in full swing. The work requirement ctreases toward the end of the term to thirty hours a week, and three weeks before the end efore finals it virtually ceases until the begin- ring of a new term. Felecion of nine men represents an increase nBoard strength from seventeen to twenty members. Four of last term's Advisers were graluated and two men failed to meet the min- mum requirements. Normally only four men ser term are chosen..• New officers elected for the Summcr, term are, Albert L. Goldman, chairman; .,-Freder- ick Hoffman, chairman, first year-rmittee: John J. Delaney, chairman, seosss year com- mttee; Henry J. Smith, Jr. cEiirman, first year faets committee; William F. Quinn, chairman, second year facts committee; Frank M. Coffin, Treasurer. Other members of the Board are: James Bruce, Jr., Joshua Jacobs, George Min- kin, John J. Shea and L. Win Alberts. ,Officers are elected from a list prepared by the retiring Chairman of the Board and sub- mitted to and approved by Dean Griswold. rjs licy of elective offices is an assurance reniality to- th Studeef' Ad~isers; the rtsomniendations of the Chairman make foi sIsbility, and the faculty sees to it that we don't hrve stability at the expense of competence, says Goldman. Starting from a spontaneously formed group of. law clubs in 1820, the moot court argument program managed by the Board became its of- ficial charge in 1910. The size of the Board's work is attested by the fact that 957 of the first term men and 75% of the second term men voluntarily participate. The Board's importance to the student body is perhaps the greatest of the autonomous student organizations. James H. Wilson Takes First Honors With 83 JAMES H. WILSON TOP AW,4RDS GIVEN TO SIX REVIEW MEN First Students Win Coveted Honors as Dean Reveals Academic Success Dean Griswold announced the following rec- ommendations to the Harvard Corporation for the annual scholarship awards: Sears Prizes of 400 each for the most brilliant work in their classes were awarded James H. Wilson and Mallory R. Smith, second year; Joseph Riggs Creighton and James M. Weinberg, first year. The Joseph H. Beale Prize was awarded to Wilson Thaddeus Colemat for Iis having the best blue book in the Conflict of Laws exam- nation. The Samuel Phillips Prescott Fay Dip- loma has been presented to Lawrence F. Ebb for his having shown through three years of law school by his scholarship, conduct and char acter tie gratest.-promise of the-graduating class. All but one of the honors given this yea go to present or former members of the Lau Review. Weinberg has left School for the sum mer but is expected to resume his work in th fall when he too will become a member of th Review. The awards are made by tie facult) solely on the basis of scholarship and are prer ented without regard to the pecuniary means o the student recipients. Sears Prize winner James H. Wilson is f resident of Americus, Georgia. He graduated from Emory University in Atlanta at the ag of nineteen majoring in history. He spen for years in the Navy during the war, servin Examination Average Election of James H. Wilson, Jr. '47 as President of the Harvard Law Review whose term of office commences with the Summer term has been announced by the retiring Board of Editors. Wilson steps into the School's top honorary position with one of the most brilliant scholastic records ever attained by a Harvard Law student. Through one full year and two terms Wilson has maintained an average of 83.5; his grades for his first year being 85, for his third term 85, ind for his fourth term 80. In addition to keeping his grades in theA bracket, Wilson served as Note Editor of last term's Board of Editors. He succeeds Lawrence F. Ebb as President. As the new president of the Bugle, Wilson takes over a staff decreased from thirty-three to thirty. The new members are: Joseph R. Creighton, Oscar W. Hausserman, and P. N. Teige, third term men; Leonard Joseph, Rich- ard S. Lane, and Joseph T. Maioriello, fourth term men; Ernest J. Sargeant, Ralph0. Winger, and D. Bret Carlson, fifth term men. Of these men, Teige and Joseph are returning veterans who had the requisite grade averages to serve on the Review but left school before the war. Carlson, Maioriello, Winger, Sar- geant, and Lane are returning veterans who have had prior service on the Law Review. Normally there are approximately forty mem- bers of the Board of Editors, but during the war, membership dropped to as. low as five. Members are selected solely on the basis of scholastic standing, this term's standard being a grade average of 75. The standard is flexible, depending upon the enrollment in the school and the discretion of the Board of Editors them- selves. In order to maintain membership, re- viewers are required to have high scholastic standing. Fifty.nine bound volumes 'of legal research, a subscription list of five thousand, and an extremely distinguished list of former b editors testify to the calibre of men selected for f the Board. r- The folloving Board members have been th ksz-5b=L_ v ar n. re le C f it a :df ntt igj LEGAL ID REOPENS; princpalyn the Pacific as Operations Officer E C O F Eof.a destroyer squadron.. He was released from ELECTS OFFICERS the Navy last fall with the rank of Lieutenant. Large Number of Cases Brought Wilson is the incumbent president of the Har- vard Law Review and is the former Note Edi- Society: New Members Elected tor. Election of officers for the next academic year Mallory R. Smith comes from Green ville,i marked the culmination of a semester of post- S. C., and graduated from Furman University war-renewed activity of the Harvard Legal Aid in 1939. Smith served on the Law Review and Bureau. Chosen were Joseph H. B. Edwards, is currently Note Editor. A hard-driving legal President; Louis A. Toepfer, Vice-President; scholar, Simth also spent four years with the Walter H. Glass, Secretary; Robert E. Bingham, Navy. Treasurer, and Davisson F. Dunlap, Senior (Continued on page three) Director. In addition, the following new members were POUNDJJ E/I BdlR.JSf chosen: Mac Asbill, Robert S. Ivie, Carrol Hament, Alexander D. Hargrove, John Can- O N C I NA TRIP I cian, Jr., George G. Morton, Jr., Frederick M. Myers, Calvin P. Sawyier, William F. Spauld- JJ illReorganize JudicialSystem ing, Arthur Stambler, Samuel M. Fahr. Reopening on April 1, after the war years' At Repest of Chinese Ministry shut down, the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau re- Advising the Chinese Ministry of Justice on ceived one hundred and twenty cases sn itn matters of judicial reform is the latest impor- initial five weeks of operation. tant assignment undertaken by 75-year old Ros- 'lhe Bureau, organized in 1912, and incor- ce Pound, Dean Emeritus of Harvard Law porated in 1914, to help members of the corn- School. munity who are unable to hire an attorney in Dean Pound and Mrs. Pound flew to China cases where legal services are needed, is staffed from San Francisco during the later part of by student members who are chosen on a schol- une. He expects to remaing theltis summer, astic basis from those students next in standing Jnd will return to Harvard this Septemberto after the members of the Law Review and the teach until June of 1947. He then expects to re- Board of Student Advisers. turn to China for as long as needed. Bureau offices and library are located in Gan- According to the request received by Dean nett House. Staff members are assigned office Pound from Kwan-Sheng Hsieh, Chinese Min- hours during which they take cases and serve ister of Justice, his work in China will consist as counsel for clients arriving. during their of giving advice and supplying materials on office hours, matters of judicial reform ani other matters Through an interpretation of the Massachu- within the jurisdiction of the ministry. serts General Laws, Bureau counsel are allowed Dean Pound is well acquinted with leading to practice before the Massachusetts courts. The Chinese jurists, having made two previous visits members of the Bureau are advised by and their there in 1937 and in 1938. Also, a number of work is under the supervision of Mr. Edward the lawyers in the Ministry of Justice are form- J. LeCam, a practicing attorney who is on the er students of his at Harvard. A number of staff of the Boston Legal Aid Society. his writings have been translated into Chinese, Cases presented to the Legal Aid Bureau vary including The Scope and Purpose of Sociologi- from routine legal form preparation to involved cal jurisprudence, Introduction to the Study domestic difficulties, property tangles, and the of Law, Interpretation of Legal History, and ubiquitous landlord-tenant controversy. The Jurisprudence. t Bureau does not accept criminal actions, bank- Internationally recognized as one of the out- ruptcy or industrial compensation applications, standing champions of progress and humanity Responsibility of counsel for the cases he re- in law, Dean Pound has been much sought ceives is complete from initial interview until after as a lecturer in foreign law schools. He final disposition. Cooperation with local welfare has lectured in all leading English Universities, agencies is close, especially in the domestic rela- and in Australia, Germany, Italy, Holland, and tion field where the social desirability of the France. He also is a member of a number of actir n requested must be affirmatively shown foreign professional organizations, and is a cor- befcoe the counsel will proceed. responding fellow of the British Academy. astbe nei,, Boaid of Editors: Treasurer, Peter K. Morse, succeeding James Lake; Case Editor, Mallory R. Smith, succeeding Morse; Note Editors, W. Covington Hardee and Ralph P. Semenoff succeeding Wilson and William P. Reiss; Book Review Editor, Richard L. Rykoff. Returning editors and new members have enabled the Board, for the first time since 1942, to place the necessary emphasis on student writ- ten work, according to Wilson With the small wartime staffs it was impossible to devote suf- ficient attention to a full scale student written section and still attend to the other section of the Review, said Wilson. Issue Number 4, April, 1946, is the first one since the war to con- tain notes, recent statutes, and full coverage of recent cases prepared by students, and subse- quent issues will continue the practice. Issue number 5, May, 1946, will be the first issue produced in its entirety by the incumbent Board of Editors. It will include an article by Robert Stern, now with the Solicitor General's Office, ot commerce clause litigation in the Federal Courts. Mr. Stern argued many of the cases which lie discusses. Louis Jaffe, Professor of Law at Buffalo Law School analyzes the Public Rights doctrine as used by the courts in administrative law, with particular empha- sis on labor law rulings. Former Harvard pro- fessor and present head- of the American Bar Association's Committee on Refresher Courses for Veterans, Sidney Post Simpson, perhaps better known to first term students as Simpson of Scott and Simpson, advocates extensive post law school training for lawyers and discusses modern academic techniques as applied to the study of law. 1477 MEN REGISTER IN SUMMER SESSION Predominately Pets; Age Average Increases From Prewar 23 to 27 Registration of 1,447 men for the Summer term marks the School's return for the first time since tie war to a normal complement of stu- dents. The low ebb of enrollees was reached during the year 1944-1945 when only forty-seven men registered as aspirants to the bar. The lar- gest enrollment in the School's history was for the year 1929-1930 when 1639 students register- ed. Normal size for the student body during rie '30's was close to 1,450. Tiis erttn's war record represents an increase of 288 over tire preceding registration period, the second and third terms absorbing most of tire increase. Tabulated below are the distribu- :ion figures: June, '46 Feb., '46 1st term 374 458 2nd term 487 300 3rd term 229 63 4th term 77 102 5th term 112 100 6th term 100 40 7th term 8 2 Special 41 69 Graduate 19 27 1,447 1,159 (Continued on page three) | I

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