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Professor Felix Frankfurter, LL.B. '06, Professor of Law at the University, but now on leave of absence, was appointed on Saturday by Secretary of Labor Wilson as administrator of war labor activities. The creation of the office is designed to bring under central control the labor activities of all Government departments having to do with the production of war materials. Professor Frankfurter will co-ordinate the industrial sections of the War and Navy Departments, the Shipping Board, the Department of Agriculture and the War Industries Board. Heretofore all these department have acted independently in obtaining their labor supply...
Having taken an A.B. degree at the City College of New York in 1902, Professor Frankfurter was graduated with highest honors from the Law School in 1906. In the summer of that year he was appointed Assistant United States District Attorney in New York, and in 1911 was appointed law officer of the Bureau of Insular Affars in the War Department, acting as chief legal advisor of the colonial administration. He was appointed in 1914 head of a new department in the University...
...committee in charge of the competition is made up of Edward Bangs Drew '63, of Cambridge, who has served in the Chinese Customs and Postal Departments for many years; Jens Iverson Westengard, LL.B. '98, Bemis Professor of International Law in the University Law School, who for several years was Advisor to the Government of Slam; and Edward Caldwell Moore, Parkman Professor of Theology, and Chairman of the University Board of Preachers. Details of the competition will be announced shortly by the committee...
Unless memory is at fault it took Harvard Law School some time last spring to regard it as the part of wisdom to allow some leaway to such students of the School as wanted to go to Plattsburg training camp. Despite the fact that it eventually saw the light, it seems now to have returned to the position it took at the beginning of the war. According to advices from Cambridge, it has repealed the vote whereby men leaving college three or four weeks early to enter the service shall be given credit for a full year's work. This...
...only hope but strongly urge that the Law Faculty change its ridiculous regulation and see that the call of national service makes three weeks of law study seem of mighty little importance...