Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sidney Post Simpson, co-author for the Wickersham Commission of Report No. 12, on "The Cost of Crime," who has been for several years a member of the New York law firm of Hines, Rearick, Dorr, Travis and Marshall, has just been elected a Professor of Law in the Harvard Law School. He will at once take up the teaching of the law of equity and trusts, as the colleague of Professors A. W. Scott and Chafee...
...being able to gain the highest honors in the Law School immediately after spending two years in military training, and among the difficulties of war. His legal experience has been further extended by his practical work as a lawyer in New York as a partner in a firm, and a member of Wickersham's commission, where he performed valuable work...
Over five million dollars was yesterday discovered to be the sum which was left to Harvard University by the will of Ariemas Ward, former head of the well known advertising firm of that name, who died in 1925. The exact amount of the bequest, which totals $5,370,669, has never before been made public due to the fact that the gift went to an educational institution and was exempt from taxation...
...babel that has been raised in altercation upon the problem of secondary schol education a lawyer's voice is added. Victor Morawetz, writing in the Atlantic Monthly, has stated that the primary purposes of a preparatory school are the development of the body, the establishment of a firm character, the training of the mind. It is essential, in his opinion, that every school graduate should write and speak clear, forceful English. Mr. Morawetz goes on to attack the present methods of teaching history and literature as mere systems of amassing factual knowledge. The blame for this he conventionally lays upon...
...idea of building a permanent home for the Debating Council is not without its merits. Such a building would act as an impetus for college debating, and it would put that activity on "a firm and lasting basis". Another important advantage is that it would create a social atmosphere, something that should be a part of any undergraduate activity. It would supply work rooms, and a lecture hall, both of which are necessary for debating...