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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outstanding in the 115-pound class are Vic Gatto and Bill Segal, undefeated in Freshman competition last year. In the 125-pound class Jim Kostarelos undefeated as a Freshman three years ago, and Dick Richardson are the most prominent contenders. Bergstein and Schrader in the 135's and Dwight Ellis in the 145's appear the best of their classes. Ellis will fill the place of Johnny Brassil, son of the well known referee...
Footballman Bobby Green will battle Al Corbett, who broke his hand last year, for the call in the 155-pound class. Captain Pete Olney, who lost only one bout last year, seems to have a competitor in the 165's in Eddie Davis, who is regaining his top form of two years...
...pound class is well supplied with such strong contenders as Henry Lloyd, Art Oakes, and Rick Hedblom. The heavy-weight boxer of last year, Spencer Howe, who beat Cramer of Virbinia, will battle Pete Cable for the position in the unlimited class...
Today peace strikes and student unions have supplanted the more practical and more effective rebellions against rancid butter and "fish with the gust in." Harvardmen no longer pound on in with the eternal leg of mutton, for beef now varies the diet. Our hardy forebears of the 17th century would blush with shame at our foppish assortment of tableware. Members of the Class of 1645 each had only one wooden spoon and one fork, the latter beeing used to nail one's single slice of bread to the table safely out of the reach of everyone else...
Harvard's basic system of teaching, as developed under Dean Pound, rests on solid ground, for it puts the emphasis not just on practical craftsmanship,--learning to write briefs and wills and the like,--but on building up a sound thinking habit in the law; the difference between smartness and wisdom. It is in adapting its outlook to changing economic and social conditions and in taking a more realistic attitude toward the problems of undergraduates and students that the present faculty committee can return to Harvard the hallmark of supremacy in the world of legal education...