Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might have had an important administrative post at the head of a great State university and who chose instead to remain a teacher because he could see no other work more worthy of his effort. "Years ago," says Roscoe Pound, "I deliberately devoted myself to legal education, legal research, and endeavor by teaching and writing to promote the most effective administration of justice." That he says, is work which he was come to understand. It is work which he cannot now desert...
...University congratulates the Dean that he has decided to go on with his work of legal research, and not to stray into the tempting field of university administration. What he would gain through influencing the future course of one of the strongest midwestern institutions, he might lose through leaving his chosen work. Dean Pound has only just begun his work in jurisprudence; the past is a promise of his future achievement...
...Legal Work His Metier...
...other hand, years ago 1 deliberately devoted myself to legal education, legal research, and endeavor by teaching and writing to promote the most effective administration of justice. That work is at least scarcely less important than the work which is to be done as President at Wisconsin. Moreover, it is a work that I have come to understand. I do not feel justified, on mere grounds of personal inclination toward life in the West and in a Western academic community, in deserting something that I had definitely taken up as my life task...
...subject of the lecture yesterday afternoon was "Religion in Legal History," and in the course of his speech, Dean Pound traced the varying influence of religions of various periods of history on the legal manners or practices of the times, and ended by expressing his belief that the time would come when men would obey the Law of the land, "not because they must, but because they ought...