Word: georgetown
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...answer is to get law students out of the classroom and into the court room. Another is to lengthen legal education. Law graduates can find a rich combination of the two at Georgetown University Law School in Washington, D.C. Located in a seedy downtown area far from its Jesuit-run parent campus, the 1,300-student law school (only 46% Catholic) is a few blocks from city and federal courts, and a ten-minute walk from the Supreme Court. The area is a virtually ideal crime laboratory, and the school has made the most of its opportunities. Georgetown now boasts...
Learning from Bondsmen. In 1960, Georgetown launched the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowships (named for an alumnus U.S. judge), which annually pay up to eleven graduate students an average $7,000, plus fees and tuition, to spend a year defending indigents. So far, the fellows have defended almost 2,500 clients, thus learning trial law while earning master's degrees and providing needed representation in the process...
...mock trials and visiting police stations. They get advice from judges, psychiatrists, even bail bondsmen. By midyear, a typical Prettyman fellow is handling no fewer than five misdemeanor cases, ten felonies, a couple of appeals and a constant series of preliminary hearings-all the while attending night classes at Georgetown and writing research papers...
...schools' careful calculation of potential givers, plenty of money still comes in, as Fred J. Lauerman, a University of Minnesota fund director, puts it, "over the transom." Florence Dailey of Rochester, N.Y., a stockholder in Eastman Kodak, left an estate of $19 million to Notre Dame and Georgetown when she died last year. No official from either school had ever met her, and except for the fact that she was a Catholic, no one has yet discovered her special attraction to the two universities. When the University of Redlands began a fund drive in 1965, an alumnus...
...Saturday, the Crimson will go into the Big Time at the Boston Garden in the Knights of Columbus meet. Villanova, Georgetown, Fordham, and all the rest will be there. And Harvard will enter a relay squad in the fast mile against the likes of Morgan State...