Word: griswold
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Author of the report: Dean Erwin Griswold, newly chosen by President Johnson to be U.S. Solicitor General...
With Sert's retirement, there will be no deans left at Harvard who were appointed by President James B. Conant. Law School Dean Erwin N. Griswold, another appointment of the Conant era, is resigning this month to become United States Solicitor General. When President Pusey, who came here in 1953, names replacements for Sert and Griswold, all of Harvard's deans will be Pusey appointments...
...developed, Griswold's critique proved to be his valedictory as well. At week's end, President Johnson announced his appointment as the next U.S. Solicitor General. As the nation's top trial lawyer, succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Griswold will shortly be exercising both his dialectical skill and his spirit...
...lead the most recent major movement in the law. Legal realism-the sociological observation that judges make law rather than find it-was nurtured at Columbia and Yale in the '30s. Though Harvard Law Dean Roscoe Pound was a leading sociological scholar, his colleagues did not follow. Griswold ("the Griz"), who has been in the dean's chair since 1946, has made a determined effort to press once again into the vanguard...
...Dean Griswold himself is not satisfied with Harvard Law's current approach. As part of the two day sesquicentennial celebration, he sounded off on one lack that he considers paramount. Said Griswold: "It has often been said, for a smile, that legal education sharpens the mind by narrowing it. To my mind, there is more truth to this than we have been willing to admit. The methods fostered at this school and widely adopted elsewhere do have a tendency to exalt dialectical skill, to focus the mind on narrow issues, and to obscure the fact that no reasoning, however...