Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to a recent survey of the Legal Aid Board of the Law School the eternal controversy between landlord and tenant is not being allowed to lose any of its acerbity in Cambridge. Students in the College and in the Graduate schools are being sued right and left by their proprieters and are in danger of having their chattels thrown into the street. They have been confronting the Legal Aid Society with more woes than come from any other single source, and it is likely that the battle will contine to rage although the Board is making masterly efforts...
Another source of trouble is supplied by the many "Drive-It-Yourself" concerns which have invaded the Square. They invariably send many hounded students to the sheltering legal wings of the Board. One Harvard student from Switzerland, having rented a "U-Drive-It" vehicle and meandered over to Boston in it, finally parked beside the Statler and left his coat and hat in the car. When he returned he found his habiliments missing, but being unperturbed drove back to Cambridge. As he climbed out of the car he was arrested and charged with having stolen it. Dumb-founded over...
...young attorneys of the Legal Aid Society, instead of being baffled by these cases, are willing to extend their services wherever they can be of assistance...
...University will have an opportunity to compete for cash prizes amounting to $750, as the result of an announcement by the Lawyers Club of the University of Michigan of a prize essay contest for the best manuscripts on the subject, "American Institutions." The essays may be historical, sociological, legal, or otherwise. The purpose of the contest is to stimulate the study of American institutions and to familiarize Americans with them by essays having literary as well as historical merit. This is the initial year of the contest and it will continue as an annual affair until further notice...
...think, ought to satisfy the individual who is interested in the dispensation of justice, for, after all, this is really the only significant feature of the case. But this simple fact is insufficient for the gratification of the crowd. In spite o the meagerness of their knowledge of the legal situation or the import of the affair, their avidity in absorbing the morbid details of the execution, as provided by the more popular newspapers, was unbounded. How eagerly they assimilated the itemized description of this gruesome procedure! How they revelled in the mental picture brought to their minds...