Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Seventy law cases are a good many for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau to have handled in the few months that it existed last spring. It meant that every man on the staff had as average of three cases and that the Bureau took care of about a case a day. When it is remembered that cases are accepted only when the clients must have free aid or none, the full significance of the service rendered will be understood. It means that Harvard is entering with practical spirit into the life of the community, while, at the same time...
...great chance for legal reform open to the coming generation of lawyers, President Lowell asserted, will be not revising our theories of law, but rather developing the administration of law, so that technicalities cannot postpone the dispensation of justice, especially in criminal cases...
...problems of other individuals and communities, and develop their own ideals in discussions with fellow students. Dean Thayer warned the students. Dean Thayer warned the students that they must temporarily forego general broadening influences and their activities, for now is their only purely scientific and theoretical study of legal principles...
...other speakers, A. Beane '11, L. Withington '11, C. B. Ruggs 3L., and B. Wright 3L., discussed respectively the openings for settlement work, the value of the Union to law students, the opportunities for helpful experience in the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, and the aims of the Law Review...
...appeal to broadly trained men to save us from the ravages of mediocrity. With the great jurists of the country's early days as examples, college men are called upon to re-establish principles which have vanished in the cloud of mediocrity that has followed popular interference with weakened legal administration and to prepare themselves to lead the public to renewed confidence in the courts...