Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Ammi Cutter '22, former associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, Doctor of Laws...
Bora Laskin, chief justice of the Canadian Supreme Court, Doctor of Laws...
...Canadian legal history and a past professor of law at the University of Toronto, graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School and received a Master of Laws degree from Harvard in 1937. Albert Sacks, dean of the Law School, called him "one of the foremost judicial figures in the court of England and the English-speaking parts of the Commonwealth." He was appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court in 1970 and became its chief justice in 1973. He is the author of The British Tradition in Canadian...
...Harvard Square, after a brief battle with University community relations officials, the City Council voted to keep out skyscrapers, placing a 110-ft. ceiling on buildings and insuring forever (pending a court challenge) the place of Holyoke Center as the Square's World Trade Center...
...March, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted a new trial to the three men convicted of the 1976 killing of Andrew P. Puopolo '77. The presiding judge said prosecution abuses in the jury selection prompted the retrial. Puopolo died Dec. 17, 1976, of stabbing wounds sustained in Boston's Combat Zone while celebrating the end of the football season with the team...