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...names of seven former professors in the Harvard Law School, who were eminent as well in the shaping of American legal tradition, have recently been carved on the marble slab which extends below the roof of the new Langdell Hall addition. The names on the West side are Story, Greenleaf, Parsons, and on the East side, Gray, Ames, Thayer, Smith. They were chosen by Dean Roscoe Pound for their contributions to legal education...
...Simon Greenleaf (1783-1853) was Royall Professor from 1833 to 1846, and Dane Professor, succeeding Story, from 1846 to 1848. The time when story and Greenleaf were associated in teaching is reckoned as one of the great periods in the school's history. Greenleaf's "Treatise on Evidence", embodying the results of his teaching of that subject in the school, was for a long time the standard work upon the subject, and is still an authority...
Theophilus Parsons (1797-1882) was Dane Professor of Law, succeeding Greenleaf, from 1848 to 1870. His "Treatise on Contracts", published originally in 1853, went through nine editions and was the standard treatise upon the subject until the publication of Professor Samuel Williston's '82 great book in 1920. The time when Parsons taught in association with Joel Parker and Emory Washburn is reckoned as another great period in the school's history...
...midyear scholarship awards were announced yesterday by assistant Dean R. E. Bacon '18, secretary of the Committee on Scholarships. Twenty-three men were granted scholarships, nine of which are Price Greenleaf aids...
Maxwell Arknsh '31, E. B. Cohen '31, Theodore Cohen '31, C. E. Demakis '31, A. J. Hadler '31, D. H. Hindman '31, Samuel Kunen '31, R. F. A. Sallet '28, and W. A. Sloan '31, Price Greenleaf Aids...