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...degree. An all-round educator, President-Elect Harris was born in Georgia and went to Mercer University there, graduating in 1917, just in time to serve as a Wartime first lieutenant of infantry. After that he studied at Yale Law School, became a Doctor of Jurisprudence, reached his Tulane deanship in 1927. He established Tulane's nationally famed Law Review. He hopes to continue teaching at least one law class even after he takes over the presidency formally on Commencement Day in June. Dr. Harris has three sons to trim at his favorite sport, "cowboy" pool, a racy variant...
...Landis will come to Cambridge next September to shoulder his Deanship with no formulated plans. He feels that he has been out of touch with academic affairs too long to re-enter them with preconceived ideas. Ever since his appointment, he has been too actively engaged in his various Washington duties to consider any technical details such as new entrance requirements or a possible 4-year course. In general, however, he favors the recent tightening of entrance requirements, resulting in a smaller first year class and necessitating fewer flunks at the end of that year. This plan will not only...
Until he assumes his new deanship next September 1, Landis will continue to rule the commission that he helped create when he assisted in drafting the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934--but he rules it with a hand that Wall Street tycoons acclaim as both fair and conservative...
...presidency of Harvard University is, as it has sometimes been called, the most important post in America, the deanship of the Harvard Law School has achieved a secondary rank all its own. A long list of distinguished jurists have occupied it. While the school faces able rivals today, it assumed the leadership of legal education under Dean Langdell and its contribution to the progress of the nation's law in every field, public and private, continues high...
...School faculty has recently turned down the offer of the Deanship...