Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometimes been called, the most important post in America, the deanship of the Harvard Law School has achieved a secondary rank all its own. A long list of distinguished jurists have occupied it. While the school faces able rivals today, it assumed the leadership of legal education under Dean Langdell and its contribution to the progress of the nation's law in every field, public and private, continues high...
...Brain Truster Landis was considered to have one of the keenest legal minds in the nation. He helped draw up the Securities Act and the Exchange Control Act and later became chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission. While in Washington he was one of the closest and most trusted of the President's advisers
...candidates for the Board are Charles Francis Adams '88, of Boston, formerly secretary of the navy, treasurer of Harvard, president of the Alumni Association, and member of the Board of Overseers; George Rublee '90 of Washington, D. C., a lawyer and formerly member of the Federal Trade Commission and legal adviser to the American Embassy in Mexico, to the American delegation to the London Naval Conference, and to the government of Colombia; Right Reverend James DeW. Perry '92 of Providence, Rhode Island, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States...
Laird Bell '04, of Chicago, Illinois, lawyer and trustee of the University of Chicago; Harrison Tweed '07, of New York, lawyer, president of the Legal Aid Society of New York, and former vice-president of the Alumni Association; G. Peabody Gardner, Jr., of Boston, chairman of the 300th Anniversary Fund, chief marshal of the 1935 commencement, and former secretary of the Harvard Corporation...
...while Harvard has been pre-eminent for many decades for the excellence of her legal instruction, she can no longer lay claim to a position of unrivalled superiority. Both Yale and Columbia have made justifiable names for themselves, too, and several colleges in the west are fast coming into prominence in this respect. Ardent adherents may exclaim that Harvard's law training is as fine today as ever and that the years of tradition should in no whit be changed, but such sentiments are equivalent to virtual reaction. With the inception of a new housekeeper comes the obvious time...