Word: dean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arch-conservative legal profession, Gallup-polled, gave him five times as many votes for the Court as any other candidate. As a Senate subcommittee got busy to consider whether Felix Frankfurter should be called Associate Justice, busy Professor Frankfurter declined an invitation to appear in person, deputized his friend Dean Acheson to represent...
...should be written "Jehovah," pronounced "Yah-weh." This belief was followed in the 1901 American Standard Bible- U. S. edition of the English Revised Version of the King James Bible. Today, scholars have their doubts about the authenticity of the word "Jehovah." Last week, Yale Divinity School's Dean Luther Allan Weigle announced that "Lord" would be substituted for "Jehovah" throughout the Standard Bible, added: "Jehovah is not a functioning religious term. People don't use it; they don't think of praying to Jehovah...
...Because of its belief in the primary importance of a command of good written English in the student's whole training," Dean Leighton continued, "and its desire to strengthen the position of English A, which seeks to aid students at the outset in gaining such a command, the Faculty Council has decided to reduce the number of students exempted from this course. In the future the Committee for Elementary Modern language Instruction will be given authority to determine what students shall be exempt from English...
...most vocal critics, but also exposed in crystalline form a fundamental weakness in what was then the attitude of a majority of his colleagues. Reflection of his views, and a program for the future creation of a more tolerant sort of legal mind, are to be found in Dean Landis' most recent annual report...
Recognizing the importance to lawyers of a cultured background which might include such studies as economics, psychology, anthropology, and sociology, the Law Faculty and members of other University departments are seeking means of integrating these branches of knowledge into the teaching of law. According to Dean Landis' report, "intermittent contact" with such subjects is inadequate; a program of purposeful association with law is needed. The main benefit of this program, according to Dean Landis, will be an appreciation by lawyers of the necessity of harmonizing their skills with those of economists and sociologists in the processes of government...