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48 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (1934-1935)
The Public Influence of the Bar

handle is hein.journals/hlr48 and id is 57 raw text is: HARVARD LAW REVIEW VOL. XLVIII NOVEMBER, 1934 No. 1 THE PUBLIC INFLUENCE OF THE BAR* WE are met to commemorate an event, notable alike in the history of this University and of our profession. For the first time it has been given to an American university to establish a unit completely organized and equipped for the training of lawyers, for research in legal science, and for the intimate asso- ciation at a common meeting place of students and teachers of law with the members of the Bench and Bar. By that magic which only the modern world has known, in a brief interval of time all the physical equipment which skill and ingenuity could devise to aid those engaged in the common enterprise of advancing the science of the law has here been assembled, clothed in archi- tectural forms of enduring beauty, and richly endowed to insure its service in perpetuity. All this has come about through the far- seeing generosity of a graduate of this University. To him it was given to see a vision, as he in his own words has described it, of the legal profession of the nation, profoundly influenced by its law schools, taking its proper place in the development of Ameri- can institutions. What we here see and dedicate to this useful service is the tangible evidence of his faith in that vision. We meet at a time when, as never before in the history of the country, our most cherished ideals and traditions are being sub- jected to searching criticism. The towering edifice of business and industry, which had become the dominating feature of the * An address delivered at the dedication of the Law Quadrangle, University of Michigan, on June i9, I934.--ED.

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