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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although not yet requiring aptitude tests for admission, Harvard gives voluntary tests to its first year men. After additional experience, the school plans to test the correlation between aptitude and later results. The result of trying to forecast law school results on the basis of college records tabulated for over ten years seems to be that "a poor performance in college is an indication of a lessened chance of success in law school." Yet one cannot interpret the data to mean that a person who gets A's in college will necessarily do well in law school. The figures...
While on the general subject of admissions, Dean Landis expressed great worry about the trend to requirements for pre-legal education. "There is hardly a subject that has no relation to law," he said. "Lawyers should acquaint themselves with other aspects of our civilization--art, literature, and music. The chief present need is for men with broad vision who will keep the law functioning adequately." At the same time Mr. Landis expressed his disgust for the American passion for formalistic training--the "peculiar belief" that you've to take a course in a subject to learn anything...
...good broad legal training out into the country." Landis compared the need for supplying all classes and interests in our society with well trained lawyers to the need for hospitals to spread new medical services to grow up where adequate services are now lacking. He was proud that Harvard law graduates are serving all economic interests...
Stressing the great field of adventure which the law offers, Landis said, "Law has more ways of living than any other profession. No one going into law can prophesy the things he's eventually going to mess around with...
This self-analysis which the law school has been carrying on for the last three years has, however, stimulated certain major changes. Most important is the new curriculum announced in an article by Professor Simpson in the April issue of the Harvard Law Review. To meet the increasing emphasis which the trend of the times is placing on new legal techniques, and to permit more intensive specialization in the final year, it has been found desirable to compress into the first two years much of the material traditionally studied over the whole course. The faculty committee, and in particular Dean...