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Both Dean Erwin N. Griswold of Harvard, and Dean Wesley A. Sturges of Yale hope to have smaller student bodies because of the abnormally huge demand in the future. They kept admissions high for lawyers right after the last war and because of the large number of veterans applying. And Sturges points to financial troubles in the last few years as a reason for keeping his school large. "...We must depend on box office receipts," he states. If each dean has his way, Harvard will eventually have 1400 students and Yale 450-some...
Yale's free elective system is in direct contrast with Harvard, where the first, two years work is, with little exception, required. Harvard's position, in Dean Griswold's words, is that "there is a hard core of law which every educated and qualified lawyer should be exposed to." In other ways, however, Harvard's recent curriculum revision seems to have moved it closer to the Yale method...
...Griswold, on the other hand, argues, "I do not think having non-lawyers on the staff is either effective or significant." Harvard does, he continues, look for lawyers who are interested in other fields--sociology, economics, history--and not necessarily for men who have a long career of practice. Nevertheless, Griswold pointed out in 1950, his faculty has twice as much experience as Yale's. Of course, Harvard's comparative advantage in size allows it to have a larger group of teachers...
Harvard's answer to criticism on this points, as explained by Griswold is that "the school is already committed to the proposition that it is better for a considerable number of men to study with a great teacher than it is for a smaller group to study with a man of lesser stature...
...much review work to be done before the four-hour test gets underway. Then the student will get questions phrased in the case form, as in class. He will either13WESLEY A. STURGES took over the Yale Law School after World War ll at about the same time as Dean Griswold was promoted to his present post in Cambridge...