Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reacting to the prospect of a draft-diminished enrollment next year, the Law School Faculty decided last Tuesday to enlarge the entering class from 540 to 600 students...
Only one of the three other Warren chairs had been filled--by the late Mark DeWolfe Howe, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Law--and finding a legal historian of Howe's stature (there aren't many legal historians in the first place) will be difficult. The remaining chairs are even more specialized--on the history of religion in America (though the divinity school may be close to announcing an appointment) and on the history of American education...
Bishop James A. Pike went on a 45 minute conversational romp through world events as he joked and lectured his way around his topic, "Death After Life," at last night's Law School Forum...
Started in response to student protests about the impersonality of the multiversity, the Tussman program took 150 freshmen volunteers and isolated them from the rest of the school for two years in a neo-Tudor-style fraternity house. There Tussman, four professors (one each from law, mathematics, political science and poetry) and five graduate assistants led a complete "intellectual immersion." Based loosely on a great-books-oriented program that Tussman studied under Wisconsin's late Alexander Meiklejohn, the first year concentrated on such Greek writers as Homer, Herodotus and Plato, followed by the Bible, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Milton...
...said we should use dogs to accompany men on the beat. And I said I wanted the force in high-crime areas to carry shotguns. And I said I wanted to concentrate men in these high-crime areas, and that I wanted them to use the stop-and-frisk law more." Word of his crackdown reached the press, and suddenly he found he had struck a deep, responsive chord throughout the U.S. He received, by his count, 8,000 letters and telegrams. Only 22 were disapproving...