Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Foundation has given the Harvard Law School a year's extension of time in which to raise $500,000 for the International Legal Studies project. In January, 1955, the Foundation had offered the Law School half a million dollars if the School could match that total within two years...
...School had been unable to raise the money as of this month, but the extension of time granted by Ford makes the Law School "reasonably optimistic about its chance for success by 1958," according to Milton Katz '27, Director of International Legal Studies...
...money offered by the Ford Foundation would be used to construct a new wing, connected to Langdell Hall by a bridge, which would house the International Legal Studies project. The present arrangement, with the Studies in Langdell, has resulted in overcrowding in that building...
During the meeting, a panel consisting of Christian A. Herter, Jr. '41, member of the Governor's Council and partner in Bingham, Dana, and Gould; John O. Rhome, partner, Hutchins and Wheeler; and Wright Tisdale, assistant general council, Ford Motor Company, will discuss opportunities in legal fields. Russell H. Peck '43, assistant dean of the Harvard Law School, will be moderator...
...months of legal wrangling between the Swedish American and Italian lines over the responsibility for the An drea Doria's sinking (TIME, Aug. 6) came to an abrupt halt last week. In a quiet, unpublicized meeting held under the stern eyes of their London underwriters, the owners of the Stockholm and Andrea Doria reached an out-of-court settlement that 1) ended their attempts to fix the blame on each other, and 2) made it possible to establish a fund for payment of third-party claims, e.g., claims by passengers and shippers for injury and loss of life and property...