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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...takes more than honest mediocrity to administer the law." These words of Professor Pound gave the keynote to the speeches at the Third Year Law dinner. Ex-President Taft expressed a similar thought in asking for experts to restore the dignity of the law. President Eliot, a short while ago, called the refuge which lawyers take in technicalities to the exclusion of principles one of the causes of the failure of our courts. Thus the teacher and the practicer of law, and the layman and scholar have united in an appeal to broadly trained men to save us from...
...ability. Mr. Williams of the Boston Transcript made an appeal for the co-operation of the press with the experts of government,-the lawyers, in correctly presenting the issues of the day to the people. He advocated the affiliation of lawyers through the bar associations with political parties. Professor Pound outlined a clear case against the election of judges, attributing all the present discontent with the courts to the system of election now prevalent, and strongly advising reversion to the old system of appointment. The former president of the American Bar Association, Mr. Storey, took his stand against Mr. Williams...
...speakers will be as follows: L. P. Percy 3L., toastmaster; Professor Samuel Williston '82, Professor Roscoe Pound; Dean E. r Thayer '88, Mr. J. T. Williams, editor-in-chief of the Boston Transcript; Mr. Moorfield Storey '66, expresident of the American bar Association; and Ex-president Taft...
...pound shot-put--Won by Lyman (H); second, Gilman (H); third, Clendinning (Y). Distance...
...Cable '13 threw the 16-pound hammer farther than it has over before been thrown in a dual meet hurling it 3 ft., and 5 1-2 in., farther than C. T. Cooney of Yale threw it in 1909. The shot-put was the most interesting of the field events. C. E. Brickley '15 was in first place when W. F. Ross of Yale came to make the last put of the event. With