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Chester Albert McLain '13 has been appointed an assistant professor of Law During 1916-17, Mr. McLain was a Thayer Teaching Fellow at the Law School. Upon the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the Engineers as a private and saw service in France, where he rose to a lieutenancy. He was given his Doctor's degree in 1918, his work for the doctorate having been substantially completed when he enlisted. Since his return from service abroad, he has been employed in the Treasury Department...
...Here began that part of his career that made him the hero of the younger Harvard men of twenty odd years ago. Theodore Roosevelt at the outbreak of the Spanish war chose Captain Wood as Colonel of the Rough Riders, taking himself the rank of Lieutenant Colonel; and it was due to the commander's energy and resolution that the needs of the regiment in those days of unpreparedness were quickly satisfied, and, when other organizations were fuming at Key West, the men were landed in Cuba to enter upon their short but valuable service...
...toward a man of so-called radical trend especially at this time when the tendency is, in attempting to crush all activities which lead to violence, to destroy that freedom of thought and discussion through which progress is achieved under our form of government. We doubt whether this unsportsmanlike outbreak against Mr. Laski has the backing of the student body. And even if it has, that would hardly bring it within the bounds of decency. In sport, whatever opinion a person may have of Mr. Laski, all must agree that the Lampoon's action is not the action of gentlemen...