Word: bigelows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reforms in the Chicago Law School's curriculum as outlined by Dean Harry Augustus Bigelow will rearrange the traditional pattern of U. S. legal education. Chicago Law next autumn will offer a four-year course which takes the emphasis away from the casebook method introduced some 65 years ago by Harvard's late great Christopher Columbus Langdell. The approved U. S. law course lasts three years. Chicago's students will still study cases, but besides such standbys as torts, contracts, property and procedure, the new Chicago plan calls for courses integrating with the law materials of economics...
Said Dean Bigelow of the projected reform: "Our graduates shall be good lawyers . . . with an understanding of the nature of [the] problems and conflicts [of society], what approaches there are to their solution, and some evaluation of the factors evolved in the application of the approaches. . . . The sit-down strike, the State and National legislation that has been produced and proposed in the last few years obviously involve problems to which a merely legalistic approach is not adequate." Added President Hutchins, onetime (1928-29) Yale Law Dean: "We hope to remove legal education from its remoteness from reality...
Charles S. Rogers '37 shussed to victory in the Annual University Down hill Ski Race yesterday afternoon on the Sheyborne Trail on Mt, Washington. Clicking off the seconds after Rogers, Frederick S. Bigelow '38, and David Emerson '38 placed second and third respectively...
...Cathedral Chapter met for general assembly, Dean Bratenahl, enfeebled at 73, had lately suffered an attack of coronary thrombosis. The Chapter, a board of trustees including such Episcopalians as onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, onetime Under Secretary of State William Richards Castle, onetime Ambassador to Great Britain Alanson Bigelow Houghton, retired Bishop Philip Mercer Rhinelander, Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, Senate Chaplain ZeBarney Thorne Phillips, was asked on the motion of Trustee Pepper to terminate Dean Bratenahl's incumbency, tender him the offices of dean emeritus and titular chairman of the building committee. With all but the foregoing members abstaining...
...research vessel "Atlantis" of the Oceanographic Institute forthwith set out on an expedition for this purpose, with Dr. Hjort, Professor Bigelow, Professor Redfield, and others on board. A week's voyage between Woods Hole and Cape Small was enough to convince Dr. Hjort that the shrimps are here in commercial quantities...