Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went back to Granite Falls and resumed his practice. Last fall he was appointed legal aid to the prohibition administrator in Minnesota. Now in the Postoffice Building in St. Paul,**** one may go up a narrow hall and into a bare, brownish room. Piles of pamphlets lie on the floor. At one end is a table desk. Behind it sits a slight, stoop-shouldered, mild man with heavy grey mustaches and a bush of grey hair, through which he has a habit of running his fingers. A gold watchchain is twisted through a buttonhole of his dark vest, and dangles...
...promise of being one of the great events in American education. When Johns Hopkins founded the university of his name, a higher and different idea of a university than any in this country began. When the Harvard Law School began to teach law by the case system it revolutionized legal teaching in this country. These are two outstanding examples, and the results in each instance were the same. Not only did better teaching produce better results but also better boys flocked to the better teaching. In its desire to be a national, not a local college, Harvard has now done...
...Legal Aid Bureau has offices at Central Square which, being the most congested district of Cambridge, is the most favorable location for the people of small means seeking aid in legal matters who make up the largest part of the clientele. Students of the University, however, are also entitled to assistance which is given free of charge on all occasions...
...Legal Aid Bureau handles cases of all types although E. S. Reid said that experience has shown that most cases are concerned with domestic relations, landlord and tenant and wage disputes, and petty torts. In order not to be used as a divorce mill, the Bureau has all cases dealing with domestic cases investigated by the Cambridge Welfare Union before acting upon them...
...Legal Aid organization had its origin in a small group of Law School students brought together in 1893 by Professor Eugene Wambaugh '76, who has since retired from the Faculty of the Law School...