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Approximately $480,000 has been given to the Harvard Law School by Chester De Witt Pugsley '09 of Peekskill. New York, to be used on scholarships for students from all nations in international law, it was announced yesterday by Dean Roscoe Pound L.L.D. '90 of the Law School...
According to a letter from Mr. Pugsley, a trust fund is offered which would yield $24,000 a year. Law Students from various foreign countries and British self-governing dominions will be beneficiaries for a year's study in international law and related subjects at Harvard...
...Roger B. Taney, his ability to see the whole as well as the minutiae of legal disputes undimmed by the years. Many lawyers have found in him a new keenness of attack, born since he left behind the retiring age of seventy. He has never been a didacticist; the law has always been a tool to his hand rather than a monstrous, all-enveloping Principle. He has recognized that the preventive is forever superior to the punitive in lawmaking. When President Roosevelt in 1902 took him from the supreme court bench of Massachusetts to serve the nation...
Forty years ago, when Justice Holmes was Judge Holmes, he told his conception of the law in words of rare beauty...
...When I think of the law I see a princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux, eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening past-figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by which mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic social life...