Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unprecedented move the Law School Class of 1924, at its 25th Reunion dinner last night in the Hotel Continental, presented the Law School with a gift of $30,000 "to be used at the Deans' discretion." Dean Erwin N. Griswold accepting the donation said that the gift "will establish an endowed scholarship providing full tuition for two students at one time...
Dean Wesley A. Sturges of the Yale Law School replies to Dean Griswold's appraisal of Harvard's legal education system tonight when he discusses "Legal Education at Yale." The talk, sponsored by the Law School Forum, will be held in Langdell Court Room...
...Dean Griswold led off last Wednesday by contrasting the advantages of the Harvard system--its diversity of students, excellent professors, and sharp competition--with those of the smaller law schools...
Referring to Harvard's competitive system, Griswold declared that "law is not practiced in a pipe-and-slippers atmosphere of informality," and called Harvard's "realistic" preparation the best for life in the competitive world of the courtrooms...
Answering an objection from the floor, Griswold debunked the old idea that one out of three students at Harvard Law are flunked out. "Actually, the number who don't come back after the first year is about 10 percent," he said. "And half of those turn out to be at some disadvantage, such as poor health, which would handicap them at any school...