Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hoped to take a Legal Medicine Department scene at the Medical School as well as finishing up two more Yard scenes. The studio will try again today...
Ordinarily, Harvard shies away from the movies; in fact Hollywood hasn't been able to molest the University since the 1926 filming of a silent called "Brown at Harvard." But this week, the University--and especially the Medical School's Department of Legal Medicine--is graciously permitting the start of Harvard shooting for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's new crime drama, "Mystery Street...
...years, the Department of Legal Medicine has quietly been helping Massachusetts police solve crimes through medical investigation. Simultaneously it has been pioneering the spread of skilled legal medicine as a replacement for the "layman coroner" system which still prevails in 41 states. It therefore is understandable that Med School officials were enthusiastic at the prospect of nation-wide publicity when two MGM investigators last year proposed a movie on the Legal Medicine Department...
Harvard's venture into legal medicine began back in 1939 when a $250,000 check from Mrs. Frances Glessner Lee set up the Lee Chair for Legal Medicine. At that time only a handful of men were trained in the art of legal medicine. Soon State and Boston police began calling on the infant Department for help in investigating unexplained deaths. Through the years co-operation grew, and today the Department looks into almost 1000 cases annually for the police...
Tomorrow Dean Griswold will discuss "Post-Graduate Legal Education" in a symposium...