Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before the American people the need for an enlarged Harvard Law School. From March, 1926, until June, 1927, a large corps of workers set forth to graduates of the Harvard Law School, and to other lawyers and laymen throughout the country the national need for a reexamination of our legal system. This corps of workers, led by Mr. Wilson M. Powell, '96, LL. B. '98, a prominent New York attorney, produced the funds wherewith Harvard's research and library facilities were enlarged and her graduate work was made a new and growing feature of the School...
...line with the reexamination of our legal system, Harvard opens this fall the work of the new Institute of Criminal Law, whose Director is Professor Francis Bowes Sayre of the Harvard Law School. To assist Professor Sayre, Professor Sam Bass Warner comes to Harvard from the University of Syracuse and Mr. Sheldon Glueck, author of "Mental Disorders and the Criminal Law", becomes Assistant Professor of Criminology and assumes a position on the staff of the new Institute. Assistant Professor John Joseph Burns of the Harvard Law School will collaborate with Professor Sayre in the Institute...
...teacher whose memory is preserved by the building dedicated today was a great example of the tradition of innovation at Harvard, for it was Professor Langdell, at that time Dean of the Law School, who introduced the "case" system into American legal teaching. After graduating from the Harvard Law School Dean Langdell went into practice in New York City. In 1870 President Eliot, remembering the work he had done as an undergraduate with Professor Parsons, in aiding that teacher to complete his book on Contracts, brought Langdell back to Harvard as Dean of the Law School and Dane Professor...
...England could not condone, contract or no contract. Indignantly Husband Amadio protested. His pleasant, big-chested wife had done much for the Church in charity concerts, festivals, bazaars. Her hobbies of reading, needlework, cooking, hardly suggested a rakish character. As for himself he said: "I was married, but legally separated from my wife. I was unhappy and without comfort. I loved Miss Austral and she loved me and we still love one another. We decided then that we must go through everything in the recognized legal way. I was divorced, and my former wife is now happily married to another...
...event of great importance to Harvard, the dedication of the new Langdell Hall at the Harvard Law School on Wednesday, Septembr 25, will bring together some of the most outstanding representatives of the legal profession both here and abroad. The Under Secretary of State of the United States, the Honorable Joseph P. Cotton '96, and Dean Roscoe Pound Hon. '20, of the Harvard Law School will address the 500 or more guests who are expected to crowd the Courtroom of Langdell Hall...