Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cover, Thinking about the invitation from the dean of the Yale Law School, the 24-year-old instructor at Columbia University hardly knew what to make of it. Apparently the eminent dean, of whom he had scarcely heard, had taken some interest in an article the instructor had written touching on the law of evidence. Anyhow, it was a chance for a notable meeting that the young philosopher had no intention of missing. Putting on his most sedate black suit and black hat, he set out for New Haven to call on the distinguished gentleman who should, he thought, turn...
...Dean Hutchins in?" he asked. "I'm Hutchins," replied the young man in flannels. "Come in and tell me what you know about the law of evidence." From that meeting on, Philosopher Mortimer Adler was to learn a lot about the dean-and so was the rest of the world. Out of their acquaintance was to come a challenge aimed at everything that many U.S. colleges and universities had come to hold most estimable: spreading campuses, more & more courses, a steady stream of glossy new facts. The sharp question that Hutchins was to put to U.S. higher education...
...place. It was true that the trustees wanted a young man with ideas, but they hardly expected him to advocate a reversal of everything the university had seemed to stand for. To them, he was simply the extraordinary young man who had been made acting dean of the Yale Law School at 28 and had done so well that Yale made him full dean...
...Berea College, but by that time young Robert had gone on to Yale. In 1917 he had joined the Army ("The manual of arms is not a great book"), won the Italian Croce di Guerra for being "poisoned by a can of sardines," then enrolled in the Yale Law School ("No case book is a great book"). At 24 he was secretary of Yale University, at 26 a lecturer at Yale Law School, at 28 a full professor and dean...
Eleanor herself soon became chief executive in family matters. Her biggest problem, as she tells it, was her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt. She snaps with wifely irritation: "I doubt if as long as she lived she ever let [Franklin] leave the house without inquiring whether he was dressed warmly enough . . . She never accepted the fact of his independence and continued to the last to try to guide his life...