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That is beside the point, however. The University of Chicago and others with similar programs are not trying to root out anything, but only to add to the fund of understanding that acute and observant jurists like Judge Hand have built up. To the extent that the sanctity of the jury is well-grounded, study cannot hurt. To the extent that this sanctity is just empty-handed reverence for an ancient part of the legal machine, it can hardly justify the political attacks on legitimate and needed research...
...these ideas should also include "radical thinking, in the classical sense of the word," the report says. "Too often critical thinking, at least as interpreted by undergraduates, merely looks for logical flaws. Radical thinking emphasized the importance of understanding and evaluating the bases on which a logical structure is built. This concept is not disregarded in the Harvard Report, 'General Education in a Free Society', but we wish to emphasize...
Lately, however, book reviews, and even one editorial, have appeared, giving further proof of an Advocate renaissance. A symbol of this growth and energy is its new building, being built on a combination of tradition (the purses of alumni) and enterprise (undergraduate wheedling). The building may well represent the end of a period of prolonged post-war anemia. Hopefully, the Advocate's reawakened spirits will further the arts as much as conviviality
Died. Louis Oppenheimer, 85, director of London's Diamond Corp., which controls 90% of the world's diamond production; in Gerrard's Cross, England. One of five brothers who built the worldwide Oppenheimer holdings (i.e., the Anglo-American Corp., with more than 200 subsidiaries in gold, diamonds, copper and other enterprises, worth about $3 billion), Louis Oppenheimer headed the marketing apparatus of the family's diamond interests, while his brother Sir Ernest ("The King of Diamonds") became director of the corporation in Johannesburg...
Days at the Races. In Los Angeles, granted a divorce after she testified that her estranged husband neglected his family by spending so much time and money on his five cars (a 1924 Maxwell, a custom-built Pinard, a 1952 Willys, a 1953 Morgan, a 1954 Packard), Mrs. Edith Thompson moaned in court: "Your Honor, I'm a sports-car widow...