Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pound came to Harvard in 1910 as Story Professor of Law after serving as Commissioner of Appeals in Nebraska and as professor of Law at Northwestern and Chicago Universities...
...named Dean of the Law School, a position he held for thirty years. During this era Pound established the Law School as a national rather than an Eastern institution, expanded the faculty and curriculum, and developed a new system of legal instruction including a stress on sociology...
...While Pound was Dean, law school registration almost doubled, but his standards were so rigorous that only two-thirds of his students gained degrees. Among these were many of the great political innovators of the New Deal years...
Initially a supporter of the New Deal, Pound later became an outspoken critic of what he saw as the judicial-administrative invasion of traditional legislative functions. A life-long Republican, Pound became in the late forties one of the foremost critics of U.S. Asian policy and a strong supporter of Chiang Kai-shek...
...Pound resigned as Dean of the Law School to become a University Professor. He then spent 11 years travelling, writing and teaching law, sociology and philosophy...