Word: laws
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...clock this morning Langdell Hall of the Harvard Law School will be dedicated by ceremonies conducted in the Courtroom of that building before an assembly of many of the foremost lawyers of this country and representatives of the bar and the schools of several foreign countries...
...company will include the Under Secretary of State Joseph P. Cotton, '96, the Honorable George W. Wickersham, Chairman of the President's National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, deans and representatives of a number of the leading law schools of the country. United States Federal and State Judges, Canadian Judges, foreign lawyers and scholars, and a large representation from the American bar. Five hundred or more guests are expected to attend the ceremonies...
...proceedings are conducted by the Harvard Law School Association, whose President is Mr. William Thomas of San Francisco. Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School, a member of the President's Commission of which Mr. Wickersham is Chairman, and the Under Secretary of State of the United States, Mr. Cotton, will address the guests. Following these addresses, a portrait of Dean Pound, painted by Mr. Charles Hopkinson of Boston, will be presented to the School by the Harvard Law School Association. The President of the University will receive the keys of the building from the architect, Mr. Charles...
...complete set of all American and English reports has been placed at each end of the reading room. The facilities for caring for the vast law library have been enlarged in the same way as these reference facilities. The new Langdell Hall will house 500,000 volumes, or almost double the number in the old Langdell Hall...
...oldest law school publication in the country will have as its speakers for the evening: Joseph H. Beale, Royall Professor of Law, one of the editors of the first volume of the Review, Perey H. Winfield, Rouse Ball Professor at St. Johns College, Cambridge, England, W. G. Thompson, prominent member of the Boston bar, Julien, W. Mack, United States Circuit Judge and a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School...