Word: laws
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...interest. If not interested, he will find no stimulation in the field at all. It is not enlivened by the lectures as some History courses are, and he will find that it has no direct bearing on any future occupation. Many in the field plan to go to law school after graduation, but the Harvard Law School places no premium on concentration in Government, rather encouraging concentration in other fields such as Sociology and Philosophy...
...four special fields of Government are American Government; Political Thought and Institutions; International Law and Relations; and Comparative Administration. In May of Senior year candidates for the degree must pass an examination on their special field as well as one on the field in general, and also take a third exam, in their Senior year, correlating Government with either History or Economics...
...Party Government coming in that order, were recommended, especially the latter, which will be omitted during 1938-39. The reading was praised, but the reading list did not come out until too late and assignments often disagreed with it. Of courses 13 and 19 on Constitutional Government and Law in the United States, the former Professor Wright's was the more satisfactory, requiring more time, as well. "Legal quibbling" was the description of course 19, but it was recognized that this was virtually a Law School course...
Presiding at the exercises will be Samuel Williston, Dane Professor of Law and President of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Professor Williston is retiring this year, and this is his last year as the head of the Chapter at the University. David T. W. McCord '21 will be the Phi Beta Kappa poet...
Langdell Professor of Law here since 1928, Thomas Reed Powell and been elevated to the Story Professorship of Law, fourth oldest endowed chair at the Law School. Professor Powell taught Constitutional Law at Columbia before coming here in 1925. Zechariah Chaffee, Jr., professor of Law since 1919, will occupy the Langdell chair...