Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finally, the fact that this year the Legal Aid Bureau has served more than 835 persons without charge--the largest number in its history--is high testimony in itself to the quality of the Bureau's work...
...view of the great majority of cases dealing with virtual destitution, such figures demonstrate the necessity for legal aid services as one element in the organization of every big city, according to the report...
This statement goes on to say that the machine age has crowded into our big cities numbers of people of alien birth lacking educational advantages, who therefore find it impossible to understand the numerous complicated laws which the age makes necessary. In the interests of democracy, Legal Aid services have been developed throughout the country, that these people may have the same opportunities for learning their legal rights and obtaining justice as their more wealthy fellow-citizens...
...report gives in detail the adventuresome history of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, telling how for years it struggled to establish a permanent organization to meet this modern problem. Today, financed by the University, cooperating with the Boston Legal Aid and the Cambridge Welfare Union, and advised by the Law School faculty, with the help of its new practicing counsel, E. J. LeCam, member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, it is able to give its needy clients aid comparable to that of a high-priced law office...
With the publication of the annual report of the Law School's Legal Aid Bureau, the student is once more reminded that not all things of good report at Harvard come from the lecture room or the tutorial conference. For the Bureau represents one of the most successful attempts that have been made to bring the student into contact with the real world beyond these cloistered walls...