Word: griswold
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Harvard Law School dean emeritus Erwin N. Griswold, hailed by President Johnson as one of the nation's foremost lawyers, was sworn in as Solicitor General yesterday in Washington...
...days Erwin N. Griswold will leave the Dean's office in Langdell Hall to take charge of the Federal government's business before the Supreme Court as U.S. Solicitor General. And in several months President Pusey and the Fellows of the Corporation will appoint a successor to Griswold. Their choice will be every bit as significant as President Johnson's nomination of Griswold three weeks...
During the 21 years of Griswold's Deanship, the Law School was able to do this. The Faculty has expanded sharply, and is still the nation's best, despite frequent foraging expeditions from Washington. And most Faculty members agree with their colleague, Clark Byse, who says, "I can't imagine a brighter, more enthusiastic bunch of students anywhere...
...large part, the Law School's greatness today is the result of expansion and innovation under Griswold. The physical plant and library facilities north of Kirkland St. have mushroomed. More important, the Griswold Deanship witnessed a series of steps to transform the Law School curriculum into a more flexible and more sensitive instrument to deal with living issues. Study centers in urban and international law have been set up, and Griswold has recruited some of the nation's leading Lawyers in those fields. Just as important from the students' point of view, the School will drop second year requirements, starting...
...that the next Dean be a man in close touch with the students, with their hopes for the law, and with their hopes for the Law School. This is not to say that he need be an advocate of de facto "student power," merely that he do what Dean Griswold refused to do--seek out a wide variety of student views and make an honest attempt at understanding them. With rare exceptions, those who meet this qualification were all trained in the law after World War II. Because of their youth, they can appreciate fully students' concern with urban decay...