Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans for the new Law School buildings have just been announced by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, architects for the building. The new edifice, which is to be a completion of Langdell Hall, will duplicate the present structure, and in addition will have an extension running off from the completed building towards Massachusetts Avenue. This wing of the building will contain a replica of a court room, with a seating capacity of 500. There will be a new reading room to accommodate 1,000 students, and the capacity of the library stacks will be doubled. For the students and professors...
...basement will contain 36 study rooms for the students doing research work, several stack rooms, like the present ones in Widener Library, and all the locker rooms. Here also will be located a large vault to protect the valuable papers and documents which the Law School possesses. For the use of those working in the library, 98 stack cubicles also will be placed in the basement...
...that Justice. Holmes has given twenty-five years of his life to the support of the national integrity to which he was heir, nor yet that no man before him ever served in the Supreme Court at such an advanced age. This is a man who has seen the law not in terms a didactic decisions, but as the ancient instrument of justice, an instrument not unadaptable to the meeting of present and coming needs. At a time when too much insistence on the letter of local law has resulted in a national growth of contraditory decrees, the remedy...
Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Law School has written for the Law Review a consideration of "The Progress of the Law--Analytical Jurisprudence...
...Everywhere, except in the moral realm, people know that they cannot successfully let themselves go or do as they please." The idea that it is the law of life to let an instinct like the sex instinct go was scoffed at by Mr. Fosdick. "Take the instinct of pugnacity," he said, "which is very deep in us. Well go out from this house now, get nearly run over by a car loose your temper, beat up the driver, batter in his head. How will you explain yourself to the judge tomorrow morning? Will you say, 'Your Honor...