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...ethical," said a student to renowned Professor Joseph Beale. Replied Beale coldly: "Sir, I suggest that you transfer to the divinity school." That pre-World War II exchange is not much different from the give-and-take in today's Harvard Law lecture rooms. "Mr. Marcuss, what is constitutionally objectionable about this ordinance?" Professor Frank Michelman asked recently. "It's discriminatory, sir," said Marcuss. "Discriminatory," boomed Michelman. "Can you name one regulatory act that is not discriminatory? Is it not the very nature of regulation to discriminate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Schools: Harvard at 150 | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

Lights Out & On. Mr. Marcuss' thought process was doubtless properly sharpened. But sharp or not, most students do not shirk. Legal Aid Bureau President Deanne Siemer spends an irreducible six hours every day on studies outside of class-and outside of her voluminous extracurricular legal-aid work. "All of the kids work pretty hard, particularly in the first year," agrees Jay Becker, who compiled the school's first confidential critique of courses and professors (sample blasts: "Gave me an absurdly high grade. Disorganized. Wears white socks." "Lecturer is beneath the usual intellectual level of Harvard professors." "Zzzzzz."). Academic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Schools: Harvard at 150 | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

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