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...Barton Leach, professor of Law, had written a letter to the Selective Service System demanding that the Lubells be taken into the armed services...
...deny the right of Professor of Law W. Barton Leach '21 to file a personal minority report on the Law School Faculty's decision to keep the Lubells. But he has chosen to do it in an unusual and unfortunate way. By implying that the Lubells' draft board--a higher power, so to speak--should take them out of school, he has stoked the coals of what should have been a settled issue and aggravated the most serious public relations problem his school has faced in years...
Professor Leach has served with distinction on the Law School faculty for over twenty years. His advocacy of expulsion for the Lubells was held on convictions that were sincere, held with neither malice nor a desire for favorable personal publicity. but it is difficult to see how his letter could have served any definite purpose. Taken at face value, his reasons for suggesting their draft seem unnecessary. True, the slow, social purge the Lubells have incurred makes them unacceptable, at present, to any bar. But the fact that they may have no vocational use for a law education...
...what about the Law School? Perhaps Leach felt it would benefit from his move. But if he wanted to cleanse the Schools of their influence, his purgative is temporary at best, for nothing can stop the twins from re-entering after their military service. Perhaps, taking a broader view, Professor Leach wants to repair the Law School's prestige in the eyes of its critics by serving notice that at least some of the school does not want the Lubells around. If so, he forget that it is not he but the Lubells that make news. Because of this...
Although Beck showed little of his rebounding skill, his remarkable, rapid passing set up more than enough points to offset the lack. While a crowd of his townsmen from nearby Fairhaven cheered him on, Penn's Bar Leach scored 13 points...