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...Erwin Griswold and M.I.T.'s Economics Professor Paul Samuelson and onetime Baseball Star Jackie Robinson-and some 120 others...
...second team included Bowditch in the goal; Jim Griswold of Penn and Bill Torbert of Yale at fullbacks; Knapp, Robin Ross of Princeton, and Al Converse of Yale at halfbacks; and Bruce Cohen of Cornell, Bill Hooks of Brown, Teq Iasu of Dartmouth, Njoku and Akuffe at forwards...
...book, entitled Law and Lawyers in the United States: The Common Law Under Stress, Griswold said that the great hopes embodied in the Civil War Amendments to the Constitution "have continuously eluded our grasp...
...Dean Griswold traces the origin of the gap between white and Negro in the United States to the English common law of chattels, which governed the possession of slaves in the American colonies. The law of chattels regarded slaves as no different from any other form of property, having neither personality, nor rights against their owners...
...This legal status was of course degrading in the extreme," Griswold said, "and it had tremendous consequences. Thus, for generations, inferiority was ground into the members of the colored race; and the white race, with varying degrees of compunction and responsibility, accepted a position of superiority...