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Idea for the course came from the law school's Dean Orrin Evans, who has long felt that a lot of lawyers are not cultured enough-and that law students needed a breather from their case books. Ten months ago, Professor William Davenport of the university's English department started to compile a bibliography, by now has found more than 200 works by or about lawyers. Among the first items studied by his students: Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster, Willa Gather's Paul's Case. Davenport also gives students...
...their term papers, students must write book reports, e.g., on Yankee from Olympus (the life of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes), but to improve their table conversation, Professor Davenport also makes them deliver oral reports. By the end of the year, says he, his class should have covered a lot of reading without a single whereas. Among the books on his list: Dreiser's An American Tragedy (murder), Melville's Billy Budd (admiralty law), Trollope's Orley Farm (perjury and forgery), and Dickens' Bleak House-"a wonderful example," says Davenport, "of the slow machinery...
...Hans Christian Andersen, who was born in Denmark 149 years ago last week. The show, a vast one to which 45 nations contributed, is divided into sections; this week part of it was on display at the New York Public Library, another part at the Municipal Art Gallery of Davenport, Iowa. Organized by a Danish welfare group, the exhibition is being circulated throughout the free world...
...Yale's Davenport College beat a previously once-beaten Dudley House hockey team, 8 to 2, yesterday in the annual Harvard-Yale intramural championship final. The Elis boasted a well paced offensive, taking 2-0 and 5-1 leads at the end of the first and second periods respectively...
John Leary led the Dragon attack, scoring both goals for his team. For Davenport, wings Andy Meyer and Furguss Reid scored two goals apiece...