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Fortnight ago in Princeton, students sped noisily to classes on rollerskates; a new university ruling prohibiting automobiles to undergraduates had just been published (TIME, March 14). Last week, able jurist William Squire...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes (The father was an able poet, the son is a venerable jurist...
...Vicount Haldane, Scottish jurist, statesman, philosopher and educator, onetime (1912-15) Lord High Chancellor: "Nobody takes the work of this House seriously (wagging a finger at the Marquess of Salisbury* Leader of the House of Lords). It is looked upon as a terrible fatality if we must continue debate after it is time for dinner...
Wilson Prize. The 1926 Woodrow Wilson Foundation medal and prize of $25,000 were awarded last week to 81-year-old Republican jurist-statesman Elihu Root for his services toward the creation of the World Court.* Why does Mr. Root deserve the prize, any more than the eleven other international jurists with whom he drew up in 1920 the World Court Protocol? He suggested how the judges of the World Court could be amicably selected among the nations. That problem had everyone well stumped. Mr. Root's idea: Let the international mechanism already functioning smoothly to select the jurists...
Ordinarily, when a distinguished jurist-statesman refuses an invitation to a public banquet, it is only necessary for him to use the words "sorry" and "impracticable," finish off with a sonorous and obviously academical paragraph of good wishes, and sign his name. Last week, however, Elihu Root, having said the ordinary thing to one Merwin Hart of Utica who had asked him to a dinner in honor of Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., went on and on in a way that would have given any social secretary the willies. Midway in the long second paragraph Mr. Root's meaning...