Word: roscopoundia
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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During a 17-year career of practicing and teaching in Nebraska, Lawyer Pound found time to direct a botanical survey of the State. There is a roscopoundia lichen. In 1910 he went to Harvard Law School, in 1916 received the deanship, a job from which many another institution has vainly tried to pry him. Once he was actually elected president of the University of Wisconsin. On the wintry night he turned it down, 700 Law School students crowded around his house to cheer: "Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Pound, Pound, POUND." Twice married...
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