Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director was famed Major Rudolph William ("Shorty") Schroeder, one of the few Bureau men whom everybody admires. Made director with sole authority was Dr. Fred Dow Fagg Jr., 40, head of the Air Law Institute of Northwestern University. A Wartime flyer, Fred Fagg has been the Bureau's legal expert for four years, has been on the payroll since last summer revising airline regulations. His salary: $8,000. Gene Vidal will continue to draw the same sum as "adviser" until he returns to commercial aviation next month...
...suspension of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau in 1935 meant a great loss to the people who for many years had been helped by it, and its restoration makes a significant contribution to the justice of the community...
There was nothing in the history of the Bureau, since its establishment in 1913, to warrant its demise. The technicality of the law passed by the General Court with regard to the legal practice of people not members of the Massachusetts Bar formed an unwelcome obstacle to further service of this kind. As the Bureau is reestablished, supervised by Vernon Marr, the experienced Boston attorney, who will make appearances before the courts of law on its behalf, there should be no ignore curtailment of its activities...
...even greater advantages are gained by the law students for whom it forms an ideal clinical outlet. As other professional schools, such as those of medicine and dentistry, have found charity work of this kind a happy supplement to the more theoretical studies of the classroom, so the untried legal minds of Harvard should gain valuable experience from these practical contacts with...
...schools throughout the United States have in recent years been operating similar services with success. It is important that such work continue, lest legal aid come to be regarded as the exclusive luxury of the rich. Actually the problems of those financially unable to hire attorneys are even more important in most cases, since any loss of their already meager property is likely to prove disastrous. In giving their best advice to these people the Harvard law students are filling a real public need...