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...months he has served on the bench of the Federal Court, Brooklyn, N. Y., during the absence of a resident judge. He took with him a righteous whip which he had learned to crack below the Mason-Dixon line. He flayed what he conceived to be the lax, despicable mores of New York law courts...
From police stupidity, the report proceeded to flay lax prosecutors, loose bail systems, unreliable juries. It recommended, as a model for other cities, Detroit's Consolidated Criminal Court...
...from judicial experience, judicial empiricism, and independent courts. This is preferable, however, to undergoing that strong reaction which invariably follows on the heels of judicial depotism. A few dominating figures on the bench might illustrate very well the advantages of a strong independent judge but, after their passing comes lax criminal law, in the throes of which, according to Dean Pound, the present generation is still laboring as a result of the Federalist judges of 1796 who struggled against the usurpation of their despotic prerogatives...
Because of the lax response to the Student Council for the unpaid amount of its budget, it has become necessary for the Budget Committee to mail second notices this week to the men who have not yet paid their pledges. Scarcely half of the promises to the fund, which were due and payable on November 30, have been fulfilled and unless the rate at which the returns are reaching the committee increases markedly very soon, the organizations supported from the fund will be forced to carry on their activities under severe financial embarrassment...
Response to the bills sent out by the Budget Committee of the Student Council for the unpaid amount of its fund and which were due on November 30, has been noticeably lax, according to C. H. Pforzheimer '28, chairman of the committee, who stated that less than half of the bills due has been paid and that the various activities supported from the fund need their apportionments immediately...