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6-10 Harv. L. Sch. Rec. 1 (1948-1950)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec6100 and id is 1 raw text is: The Harvard Law School Record VOL. 6 NO. 1 CAMBRIDGE, MASS., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS NEW PROFESSOR Prof. William L, Prosser, who was ap- pointed to the Harvard Faculty last spring, is teaching here this term. As professor and practitioner in the field of torts and author of the popular Horn- book ass Torts, Prof. Prosser has taken over the instruction of Section I, 2nd term, is his specialty. Prof. Prosser was a member of the Minnesota Law School faculty from 1930 to 1942. He left to become Counsel for the O.P.A. in Minnesota and has recently been engaged in practice with the Min- neapolis firm of Dorsey, Coleman, Barker, Scott, and Barber. SHELDON PRIZE John R. Alexander, 3L, (Princeton '41), has beet awarded the Sheldon Prize for the best oral argument in the quarter-final round of last term's Ames Competition. The prize was m a d e available under the will of William D. Shel- don and it permits the winner to select any book of his choosing up to a $20 limit. SHATTUCK HANDBOOK Mayo Adams Shattuck, L.L.B. '21, Boston attorney, whose lectures on estate planning last term at the Law School evoked wide interest among RE-con readers, has announced the proposed spring publication of his book, An Es- tate Planner's Handbook. The work, 'which will be published by Little, Brown and Co., treats comprehensively all phases of estate -planning and in ap- pendices presents the views of other leading writers on special subjects. 9 . 0 JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION The Association of American Law Schools will found a new legal journal which will be published by the West Publishing Company and the Founda- tion Press. It will be edited by the fac- ulty of Duke University Law School and will serve as a forum for legal edu- cators throughout the nation. Brainerd Currie, professor of law at Duke Law School has been named as editor-in-chief. The members of tse H.L.S. ALUMNI IN INDIANA NEWS IN BRIEF ORGANIZED $20,000 Is Pledged By Membership For School's Use The Harvard Law School Association of Indiana, following in the wake of three other local associations, Philadel- phia, Northern California, and Southern California, is the fourth Alumni group to be granted affiliation status with the national Harvard Law School Associa- tion. Its well-attended initial dinner party-its pledge of almost $20,000 for the benefit of the Law School, and its active steps in establishing a local place- ment bureau to aid graduating students in securing positions bear witness to the enthusiasm and loyalty of the Indi- ana Alumni. Kurt F. Pantzer '17 and Joseph J. Daniels '14 of Indianapolis were the chief organizers of the new Association. Through their efforts, a dinner and busi- ness meeting to which all Indiana Alumni were invited was held at the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis on De- cember 15-16, 1947, In spite of a severe snow storm, over 75 of approximately 200 Alumni in the State were preset. Mr. Pantzer was Toastmaster; speakers included Mr. Daniels who explained the aims of the new organization, Governor Ralph F. Gates of Indiana, and Professor W. Barton Leach whose address con- coined The Challenge of Harvard Law School. At this meeting, the Indiana group was the first local chapter to ex- ercise a prerogative granted by the new (Continued on page four) Writer Recalls Terror, Hope, Despair That Are Fate of First Year Class In 1933, Lyttleton Fox, LL.B. '34, now a New York lawyer, wrote an article for the magazine, Forum and Century, called Harvard; Incubator of Greatness.' Mr. Fox developed the thesis that the Harvard Law School training entailed such an ordeal that those who did survive naturally took prominent positions of responsibility in government and business upon graduation. The Bxcoen, with the publisher's permission, reprints portions of the article to remind alumni of victories well won and to show students that their present travail is just an old story. editorial board who will determine the The opening lecture in any course is sleep. Though their eyelids may tell editorial policy of the journal will be likely to be a geyser of advice. With them they will endure no more, they David F. Cavers, professor of law at each new fillip to industry, the gospel force themselves ahead. You can see Harvard Law School; Elliott E. Cheat- of terror takes firmer root. Multiplicity them at the reading tables any after- ham, professor of law at Columbia Law of advice from different sources is con- noon-their poor, weary heads heavy on School; and Albert J. Harno, dean of fusing. Don't take down the whole their folded arms, eyes shut as if they the University of Illinois Law School. lecture; you mustt't suspend your would never open. * * thought and make yourself a mere ste- There are me who grudgingly con- LAW WIVES OPERA CLASSES nographer. It is of the first importance (Continued on page three) The Harvard Law Wives as a result of to learn to select your material. An- many requests are sponsoring a second other urges the wisdom of putting every- series of Opera classes for law students thing the instructor says in your note- PROFESSOR E. S. and their wives. These classes are con- book. What seems trivial now and is ducted by Mr. Benjamin Kimball who easily forgotten may be badly needed at THURSTON DIES plays the recordings and draws from his a later stage. It doesn't pay to take long operatic experience to interpret chances by trusting your own, inex- Professor Emeritus Edward S. Thurs- each work. The admission charge is perienced selection. ton '01 who taught at the Law School $1.50 for the series of six classes or 35 On swings the term, and up swings from 1929 to 1942 died on Feb. 10, at cents for each class. The next meeting the advice market until it is glutted and the age of 71. Still actively engaged will be held at Kendall House at 8 p.m., totteritg. But it never quite collapses, in legal work, Professor Thurston was Feb. 26. A second-year man who barely muddled teactig at Hastings Law School until through the examinations pours out pre- tic time of his death. His last ap- YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB cepts with the glibtess and sublime pearance before the alumni was on Feb- Last Tlsrsday night over statio self-trust of Solomon. And men who ruary 2 when le attended the meetig WHDH in Boston, four Law School would not have faith in the speaker's of the Harvard Law School Association students participated in a debate involv- common sense to plan a pictic take it of Northern California. ing the Taft-Hartley Act. Tte program, all with hungry humility. Forntlas for Professor Thurston was graduated which was broadcast from 9 to 9:30 success stuff the air. from Harvard College in 1898, received p.m., was one of WHDH's weekly series Everyone knows that the big chance his A.M. from Harvard in 1900, and took of student forums, This Is Your Btsi- depends heavily on the intensity of his his LL.B. in 1901. After 5 years of prac- ness. work and in general the industry of law tice in New York City, he began his Defending tte much-disputed statute students is saintly. Tley plant them- teaching career which brought him to were two members of the Speakers selves in the gigantic reading room of Isdiana, Illinois, Minnesota, and Yale Bureau of the Harvard Young Republi- the law library day after day, meticn- Law Schools before li came to Harvard. can Club, John L. Casey, Jr. (Direc- lously annotating. (Nothing adds to Professor Thurston was the author of tor of the Bureau), and Chester B. Me- the appearance of unremitted effort like several text-books, among them Cases Laughlin, Jr.; opposing them were a green vizor.) Many will not desert on Torts, 1942, which he did in collabo- John MacMeeken and Duane Beeson. the procession even for badly needed ration with Professor Seavey. MUST WE STOP RUSSIA WILL BE FORUM TOPIC ANNOUNCEMENTS Due to the intervening holiday the next issue of the BECORD Will be pub- lished on Wednesday, Feh. 25, instead of on Tuesday, Feb. 24. This term, the IcEono plans to ex- pand its staff through the addition of men to the business and editorial de- partments. If you feel that you might be in- trested in joining the staff, we invite you to climb up to the RECORD offices on the -third floor of Austin sometime during the next week and talk it over. We would prefer to have you come be- tween the hours of 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., but there will be someone in the office at all times during the day to discuss the matter with you. DEAN REVEALS TRAINING PLAN Third Year Men To Work With Faculty As a further step in the School's ef- forts to provide supervised legal train- ing outside the classroom, Dean Erwin N. Griswold has announced a plan, to be conducted on an experimental basis during the spring term, whereby a num- ber of -third-year men will be given an opportunity to work with Faculty mem- bers as legal assistants. Full details of the plan are contained in announcements now posted on the bulletin boards. Eligibility require- ments are third-year standing and an average of 68 or higher in either first or second-year work, or both. Editors of the Harvard Law Review, members of the Board of Student Advisers and of the Legal Aid Bureau, and participants in -the written work project, are not eligible. (Continued on page tour) I. F. STONE The future for Russo-American relations will be examined for the Harvard Law School Forum by two journalists, Joseph Alsop of. the New York Herald Tribune and I. F. Stone of the Nation and the newspaper PM, who will consider the question, Must We Stop Russia? Law School Proiesso Milton Katz, war- time OSS officer in Europe, will moderate at the meeting scheduled for 7:50 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 20, at Rindge Technical High School Auditorium. Author, columnist, and a former Har- LA E TS yard student, Alsop has covered Russia LAW STUDENTSJ and interviewed Joseph Stalin. Though he does not believe that war with Russia ON BROADCAST is inevitable, Alsop favors a strong policy of resistance to Russian expansion along Will Appear on A.B.C.'s the lines of our present State Depart-. ment stand. During the war, Alsop re- 'World Security' Series signed from the Navy to serve with the Flying Tigers In China. He was cap- Professors and students of the Har- tured by the Japanese at Hong Kong vard Law School will serve as judges in 1941 and a year later was exchanged. and counsel respectively for the next After this, Alsop returned to China as four trials of -important issues in the head of Lend Lease mission in Chung- World Security Workshop series, king, and he later-served with the 14th broadcast coast-to coast each Sunday Air Force in that theater. With Turner from 12:60-1:00 p.m. by the American Catledge, Alsop authored The One Broadcasting Company Network. List- Hundred and Sixty-eight Days, and he eners in the Boston area can hear a also wrote Men Around the President transcription of the program on WCOP, in collaboration with Robert Kintner. the local network station, starting this In opposition to Mr. Alsop's view and Sunday Feb. 22, at 2:30 p.m. our present official attitude towards Consideration of current world prob- Russia, 'I. F. Stone, long a critic of (Continued on page four) American foreign policy, will attack the European Recovery Program and Greek intervention policy among other facts STUDENT BOARD TO of official action. Stone has recently re- SHOW NEW MOVIE turned from an extensive tour of Europe W N W M E and the Middle East, and is presently The Board of Student Advisers plans Washington Editor of the Nation and to show its newly completed moving Foreign News Editor for PM. picture, Case in Point, in the Court Room on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 8 pm.,P.B.H ANNOUNCES for first-year students, and on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 8 p.m. for upper classmen. SPRING PROGRAM The film is a 50-minute color and sound production covering the use of legal re- The Phillips Brooks House Law search materials. It portrays a Student School Committee announces a full Board adviser conducting a group of calendar of dances during the coming new law students through the library spring term. There will be two informal and showing them how to use the availa- dances and one full dress affair. ble tools. The concluding part of the On Saturday, Feb. 28, the first in- movie shows the methods' employed by formal dance will be held from 8 p.m. to a first-term student in gathering material 12 in Memorial Hall with Lou Tobin's for his particular Ames case. Orchestra providing the music. There The film script was written by John will be tables for everyone and set-ups MeNaughton 3L, Eastman Birkett 3L, will he available at the bar. Tickets will Cyrus Newman 3L, and Stanley Freed- go on sale Friday, Feb. 20, and each mats 3L; Freedman was also the pro- afternoon thereafter from 1 o'clock un- ducer. As a result of showing the movie til 5. to tse Convention of American Law Several weeks before final examina- Schools, there have beet numerous re- tions, the formal dance will take place quests for the fihn by law schools in t&s Imperial Ballroom of the Hotel throughout the country. Statler. The date has been set fcr Fri- Since tse initial sets of facts for the day, March 19. Later in the season, second-term courts will be issued on the Committee plans to promote another Feb. 24, the Student Board hopes to informal dance. give second-term men the first oppor- In addition to these social functions, tutity to see the film. These courts will the P.B.H. Law School Committee per- be in sessiot during tie third and fourth forms tmany other useful functions for weeks in March. law students. It was instrumental in The facts for the quarter-final and establishing the Harvard Legal Aid semi-final arguments were issued last Bureau, the Law School Forum, and the week and the cases will be tried during Law School Yearbook; these organiza- tite last week of Marct and on April 1 tions have since become autonomous. fatd 2 respectively. At the end of the At the present time, it publishes the first week in April, the Gardner Club Law School Directory free of charge for will meet the Holmes Club in the final the students; it publishes a monthly argument in the Ames Competition. (Conttnued on page four) JosEpH ALsop

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