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Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government, was less certain of Warren's capabilities. "My reaction would not be great enthusiasm. I don't know anything about his qualifications as a jurist. I'm afraid I can be neither indignant nor enthusiastic," McCloskey said...
Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, 28, professor of Law, echoed McCloskey's uncertainty. "I think it's all right, but it's not too exciting, he said. "It seems like a perfectly good appointment. But I would rather see him an associate justice first. A man should be tested before he becomes Chief Justice. I thin he'll be a good moderate liberal. I think he will take a liberal stand, for instance, on civil liberties. I think he is a moderate man, moderate in ability, in wisdom and I think he'll make a moderately good justice...
...Council-approved charter, said last night he hoped for official University sanction before Easter recess. Already, according to Gregg, a number of faculty members have offered themselves as sponsors. These include William Y. Elliott, Williams Professor of Government, Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, McGeorge Bundy and Robert McCloskey, associate professors of Government, and William Moffitt, assistant professor of Physics. Both Eliot and Moffitt attended Oxford, Eliott as a Rhodes Scholar...
When you're ambling down Massachusetts Avenue worrying about how many cases you should have put into McCloskey's first question, and you get clipped in the ear with a hickory stick and spiked in the ribs by an aluminum rod-then you know that exams are over and the big exodus has begun. They're all off to the slopes...
Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government, thought it "a step in the right direction, but I'm afraid, a very small step. It's just an extension of the Morgan vs. Virginia case--in 1944--when the Court ruled bus lines could not segregate Negroes. However, the Court has been proceeding, at a very slow pace, towards elimination of Jim Crow rules...