Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Honorable George W. Wickersham, Chairman of the President's National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, deans and representatives of a number of the leading law schools of the country. United States Federal and State Judges, Canadian Judges, foreign lawyers and scholars, and a large representation from the American bar. Five hundred or more guests are expected to attend the ceremonies...
...complete set of all American and English reports has been placed at each end of the reading room. The facilities for caring for the vast law library have been enlarged in the same way as these reference facilities. The new Langdell Hall will house 500,000 volumes, or almost double the number in the old Langdell Hall...
...building which is dedicated today is but one of the tangible results of that campaign which brought before the American people the need for an enlarged Harvard Law School. From March, 1926, until June, 1927, a large corps of workers set forth to graduates of the Harvard Law School, and to other lawyers and laymen throughout the country the national need for a reexamination of our legal system. This corps of workers, led by Mr. Wilson M. Powell, '96, LL. B. '98, a prominent New York attorney, produced the funds wherewith Harvard's research and library facilities were enlarged...
Four lecturers come from other American colleges to Harvard, two for the whole year and two for the second half year only. Chauncey Tinker, on sabattical leave from Yale, will lecture during the second half year in the Department of Fine Arts on British Painting of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...
Eugene O'Neil is considered by many the foremost American playwright. He studied under George Pierce Baker '87, formerly the tutor of the famed "47 Workshop...