Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recognizing the importance to lawyers of a cultured background which might include such studies as economics, psychology, anthropology, and sociology, the Law Faculty and members of other University departments are seeking means of integrating these branches of knowledge into the teaching of law. According to Dean Landis' report, "intermittent contact" with such subjects is inadequate; a program of purposeful association with law is needed. The main benefit of this program, according to Dean Landis, will be an appreciation by lawyers of the necessity of harmonizing their skills with those of economists and sociologists in the processes of government...
...liberal education, he becomes more competent to serve society. But the lawyer is faced with such a complete cross-section of human activity that his need for a broad outlook is paramount. Casual undergraduate training in economic and sociological principles, which is often the full extent of a law school graduate's background, is not sufficient' nor is a mere smattering of psychology and government adequate for either a judge or a practicing barrister. And above all, success in the struggle for social and economic betterment will depend partly on the skill with which all the weapons in the progressive...
When the 56-year-old Harvard law professor replied, "I don't believe you are more attached to the theory of Americanism than I am," the crowd which had jammed into the hearing roared approval...
...like the government, Harvard has expanded rapidly, with the Littauer School of Public Administration being the most obvious example of another "bureau." The Business, Medical, and Law Schools, while not increasing in enrollment, are nevertheless enlarging their activities in the general direction of the public. The annual reports issued from the School of Public Health and the Law School have definitely shown this trend. This expansion has meant new and more numerous duties for the President of the University, whose obvious duty it is to supervise actively all the engagements of the "bureaus" under him. Perhaps the actual expansion...
...those who have disappeared from Harvard since November 1937, F. William Burgess of the Law School was drowned, J. Wilbur Gould was found the victim of amnesia; and Robert J. Meyerson went to Utah...