Word: adaptation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to adopt the best possible legal system, the Israeli Government had to study the codes of established governments and then selectively adapt these procedures to their own state. But the only place where that legal research could be done was at Harvard's 750,000 volume law library...
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was born (in 1902) in his grandfather's house at Nahant, and grew up under his grandfather's watchful eye. His father, George Lodge, an unhappy man who bitterly lamented "my crying inability to adapt myself to my time and to become a moneymaker" and wrote passable poetry which no one read, died when the boy was only seven. His mother was, in Historian Henry Adams' description, "another survival of rare American stock: Davis of Plymouth, Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Griswold of Connecticut, with the usual leash of Senators, Cabinet officers, and other...
...Subjective Factor. One of Pound's great fears is that belief in "the justice of the courts" is being undermined. Where 19th Century judges scorned to adapt their abstract reasoning to experience and social change, the "realists" of today, stimulated perhaps by hasty readings in Marx and Freud, challenge the worth of any standard except experience. ". . . [Some] assert [the law] is a camouflage of reason covering up ... individual personal prejudices or wishes . . . because human judges cannot keep purely subjective factors from influencing and indeed determining their action...
...Harvard Debate Council can not possibly adapt itself wholly to this system, as many colleges insist on debating the same subject in the same way throughout the year. But that is no reason to ignore the problem of audience-appeal altogether. Debating as an activity deserves more interest than it currently receives; but unless the Debate Council makes some effort to appeal to its audience, debating here will continue to be ignored...
...faculty is composed entirely of former undergraduates. These individuals, usually the dregs of the class, go out into the world to adapt the principles of Closed College to the over-changing mores of the nation. Having accomplished this task, they return to their alma mater to relay the "word" is subsequent classes...