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...might have had an important administrative post at the head of a great State university and who chose instead to remain a teacher because he could see no other work more worthy of his effort. "Years ago," says Roscoe Pound, "I deliberately devoted myself to legal education, legal research, and endeavor by teaching and writing to promote the most effective administration of justice." That he says, is work which he was come to understand. It is work which he cannot now desert...
Professor Bailey's own research work has dealt largely with the meteorological problems of Peru and with the southern stars which he has photographed with several high powered telescopes at the Arequipa Station. This work has been of the greatest importance to astronomical research, partly because of the station's high altitude of 8000 feet and partly because of its southern location. A large proportion of the material that is used in the astronomical investigations at the Observatory is obtained from the Arequipa station...
Thus it goes, According to latest research, no government has yet prescribed Postum instead of coffee, nor made it illegal to smile back at a young lady, if she smiles first. Perhaps it is unwise to mention those oversights: they will probably be incorporated in the next bill...
...University congratulates the Dean that he has decided to go on with his work of legal research, and not to stray into the tempting field of university administration. What he would gain through influencing the future course of one of the strongest midwestern institutions, he might lose through leaving his chosen work. Dean Pound has only just begun his work in jurisprudence; the past is a promise of his future achievement...
...other hand, years ago 1 deliberately devoted myself to legal education, legal research, and endeavor by teaching and writing to promote the most effective administration of justice. That work is at least scarcely less important than the work which is to be done as President at Wisconsin. Moreover, it is a work that I have come to understand. I do not feel justified, on mere grounds of personal inclination toward life in the West and in a Western academic community, in deserting something that I had definitely taken up as my life task...