Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reopening of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau is urged by Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Law School, in his annual report...
...bureau was closed this fall because of a recent act of the legislature after operating since 1913 as a free legal office for the poor of Cambridge...
...Perhaps the most serious event of the past school year," says Dean Pound, "is the enactment of legislation which has cast such doubt upon the legality of the operation of the Legal Aid Bureau as to lead to its suspension...
...That the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau answered to a real need in Cambridge and vicinity is witnessed by a long record of effective service to the community. At first it was looked upon with doubt by some magistrates. But it had proved itself worthy by the experience of the courts and it had become the practice where ignorant and needy persons mistakenly applied to the courts for information to refer them to the bureau...
Shurtleff has been secretary of the American City Planning Institute since 1913, and is legal counsel for the American Planning and Civic Association. He is an experienced lecturer and is author of "Carrying Out the City Plan," published...