Word: mckelvey
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...late autumn of 1886, four Harvard law students who believed that the Law School had "a message for the professional world" met to map strategy for a new venture: a law review. Suggested by a young graduate of Ohio's Oberlin College named John Jay McKelvey, the idea was elaborated by his fellow students Joseph Henry Beale, Julian William Mack and John Henry Wigmore. During the Christmas recess young Mr. McKelvey went to Manhattan and sold his idea to the late great Joseph Hodges Choate, one of the foremost U. S. lawyers of the day, who became the magazine...
With John McKelvey as editor-in-chief, the 54-page Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Harvard Law Review appeared in April 1887. Bound with the same drab olive paper which has been used ever since, the first issue featured an article by Harvard's James Barr Ames on Purchase for Value Without Notice, went to 300 subscribers. Just as Harvard's late great Christopher Columbus Langdell's methods of case study became the guide for all U. S. law schools,*the Harvard Law Review quickly became the prototype for law reviews. The Columbia Law Times appeared...
Manhattan Lawyer McKelvey, now 74, reviews the first 50 years of law reviews. [To the charge that law reviews are "stupid, dry, uninteresting . . . unleavened with humor," he answers: "Who would be likely to resort to a legal periodical for his humor? Certainly not a lawyer or judge. . . . The law review . . . [is] the vehicle of thought between legal scholars and the practitioners and judges...
...Health: Charles G. Hutter of Washington. Graduate School of Design: (including degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning) Eustis Dearbon '32, of Sandwich, Graduate School of Business Administration: William S. Allen, of Winchester, Graduate School of Engineering: John H. Ferguson, of Marblehead. Graduate School of Education: Frederick H. McKelvey, of Sparta, Illinois...
Frederick H. McKelvey of Sparta, Illinois, A.B. University of Illinois 1930, now a student in the Harvard Graduate School of Education...