Word: freund
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extraordinary faith in reason," Freund said, "some might say a pathetic faith in reason." But Brandeis was not sentimental, Freund said, adding, "He could be quite tough-minded...
...Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor, constitutional lawyer, and legal historian last night offered 20 people at a Leverett House American Studies Table anecdotal descriptions of the Supreme Court Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Felix Frankfurter and Louis D. Brandeis...
...Freund portrayed Holmes as a "skeptical" and "pragmatic" person who nevertheless tolerated the flaws he saw in the law-making process. Holmes was "pre-Existential," Freund said, in his conception of living as "not belief in a cause but giving one's self to a cause which one only dimly perceives...
...Freund then spoke of Brandeis, for whom he clerked after graduating from the Law School in 1932. Brandeis was a "moralist," Freund said, who "wrote opinions not to pierce the mind, but to instruct and overwhelm" with their weight...
...United States and he had to go to Canada to teach; Lionel Trilling recalled in an article in Commentary that he was the first Jew appointed to the English department a Columbia. The Harvard Law School did not appoint another Jew after Felix Frankfurter until 1939, when Paul Freund and Milton Katz were named assistant professors. The limitation in the academic job market in turn served as an excuse to limit the number of Jewish students in graduate school, the argument being, "Why train people who cannot get jobs...