Word: pound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roscoe Pound on his 89th birthday today is a living monument to the benefits of an active mind. At present he is working on "two or three" articles for law periodicals, and has four talks to law clubs scheduled for later in the week. This afternoon he will undertake a particularly pleasant task; Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, which Pound helped found in 1933, is also having a "birthday" celebration, and he is the principal speaker...
...Pound tells it, the president of Tufts came to his office when he was Dean of the Law School and asked him what to do with a large grant for founding a law institution. Since there was little need for another law school in the Boston area, Pound suggested a center for education in the field of international law and diplomacy...
...took the Tufts president to see President Lowell, and Lowell was quite taken with the idea," Pound said yesterday. "Now, it's more than 25 years since I put the idea across." Although few but Pound foresaw it in 1933, the Fletcher School today fills a real and growing need...
...Pound came to Harvard in 1910, as Story Professor of Law. In 1913, he became Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, and he was named Dean of the Law School in 1916. He served in this twin capacity for 20 years, until 1937, when he was honored with a University Professorship, which he held until...
...absolute stillness of death (corpses are embarrassing when they breathe), who know how to wear a cop's uniform with ease. On location in Manhattan, actor cops get up to $100 for a day's work ($22.05 if they have no lines). Real New York policemen pound their beats for salaries starting...