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Robert W. Oliver ’53, Law’s roommate throughout college, recalls that Law’s adherence to the tenets of Catholicism—which were far stricter in the 1950s than by the end of the following decade—distinguished him from other undergraduates...
Oliver vividly remembers Law going out of his way to ensure that the vegetable soup served in the dining hall on Friday did not contain any beef stock.
“Most of the religious students at Harvard would not have pursued it,” Oliver says. “They would have been content with the vegetable soup because they were following the spirit of the law.”
Oliver recalls that Law “made an effort to be friendly” to a black student at Harvard at a time when minority students “were as scarce as hens’ teeth.”
Oliver, who is a Protestant, says Law at first tried to convince him to accept the beliefs of the Catholic Church.