Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...petition of the University Corporation that it be allowed to sell part of the Bussey Estate in West Roxbury was granted recently by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. As originally established in 1871 through the bequest of Benjamin Bussey Institution was for the encouragement of theological and legal education in the University: the other half to be devoted to the promotion of practical agriculture. In 1908 the institution was re-organized solely as an institution for advanced instruction and research in subjects relating to practical agriculture and as such it is now being used. The part of the Estate...
...pride. Such is the case with the leading article in the March number, on Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot, for many years a member of the Corporation. The Corporation, as undergraduates perhaps need to be reminded, consists of seven persons--the President, the Treasurer, and five Fellows. These are the legal holders of the property of the University, and the most important administrative body for guiding its policy. No finer spirit is shown in any part of the University's work than in the service given gratuitously by members of the Corporation. Theirs is a labor of love and of honor...
Interesting both as an experiment in legal training and in philanthropic endeavor is the foundation of a Legal Aid Bureau of the Law School in connection with the Phillips Brooks House. Only those intimately acquainted with the courts know the distress arising from inability to hire efficient legal aid and can appreciate the philanthropic possibilities of the undertaking. Furthermore, the bureau suggests possibilities for practical training of law students, for the men taking part in the work will be more than repaid in the experience, which they will gain...
...important step not only in the work of Phillips Brooks House but in the history of the Harvard Law School, will be taken next week when the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau will be established. This Bureau will undertake without charge to give legal advice, to draw up contracts and other papers, and to appear in court in behalf of clients. All this service will be free to anyone who cares to use it. Whenever the matter is too serious to be handled by the Bureau itself a capable lawyer will be employed...
...Harvard Legal Aid Bureau will be conducted by 25 men of high standing in the second and third-year classes of the Law School. An office will be rented in Central square, and will be kept open two hours in the afternoon and two in the evening. The general control of this work will rest in the executive committee of the Law School Society, the chairman of which is M. M. McDermott 3L. The appointment of committees will be announced the first of the week...