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While on the general subject of admissions, Dean Landis expressed great worry about the trend to requirements for pre-legal education. "There is hardly a subject that has no relation to law," he said. "Lawyers should acquaint themselves with other aspects of our civilization--art, literature, and music. The chief present need is for men with broad vision who will keep the law functioning adequately." At the same time Mr. Landis expressed his disgust for the American passion for formalistic training--the "peculiar belief" that you've to take a course in a subject to learn anything...
...social service professions. When the police chief of New Haven, Conn, confiscated copies and arrested a dealer, the testimony of two Yale medical professors and a Congregational minister persuaded a judge to dismiss the case. Said the minister, the Rev. Dr. Oscar Maurer: "The failure of parents to acquaint their offspring with the facts of life justifies public agencies doing...
...British code names for Wilson was "Aaron." When Anglo-American relations were strained, British publicists wired Colonel House that they would acquaint British leaders with Aaron's difficulties at home. At the outbreak of the War Aaron's difficulties were certainly immense, and Dr. Tansill's book gives the impression that Colonel House was not the least of them. Proud of his part in drawing up the Federal Reserve Act, House became an amateur financial expert, with the "comfortable conviction that his knowledge . . . was adequate to meet the emergency." In the chaotic situation that developed in international...
...buyers are Mr. George F. Havell & friends. Onetime circulation manager, business manager and then managing editor of The Forum, Mr. Havell is a magazine "doctor" well able to acquaint himself with The Digest's ailments. As soon as Messrs. Shaw bought the Literary Digest, Mr. Havell became its publishing consultant, put his own money into...
Phillips Brooks House last night was the scene of the final general meeting for Freshmen in the program to acquaint them with undergraduate activities, when heads of the various extra curricular organizations addressed over 600 Yardlings...