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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...they will some day have to argue them in actual courts of law. There are now about a dozen of these clubs which meet every week and by this means about a hundred members of each class get actual practice in legal arguing. The oldest club is the Pow Wow, which was founded in 1870 by eight first year students, among whom are Professor J. B. Ames of the Law School, Austen G. Fox of New York, Russell Gray and Brooks Adams of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Clubs. | 5/22/1896 | See Source »

Shortly after the foundation of the Pow Wow a number of other clubs were instituted, and the honor of being elected to one of the three or four oldest clubs is greatly esteemed by all students. The leading clubs are the Pow Wow and the Ames-Gray. Election to either of these paves the way to election to the Law Review, which is a greater honor. Other clubs are the Thayer, Austin, Williston, Story, Langdell, Marshall, Kent, Witenagemot, Washburn and Cooley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Clubs. | 5/22/1896 | See Source »

...Pow Wow Law Club will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary tonight at the Hotel Vendome by a reunion and dinner. This club, which is the oldest in the Law School, was started by Professor J. B. Ames '68 and seven other first-year men in the winter of 1870-71. Although it has been the custom for the undergraduates to hold an annual dinner, never before have graduates been invited or has a reunion been attempted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pow Wow Club Reunion. | 4/4/1896 | See Source »

...Pow Wow Law Club will hold a twenty-fifth anniversary and reunion at the Hotel Vendome in Boston on the evening of April 4. The club, which was the first one in the school, was founded in the winter of 1870-71, Professor Ames being one of the charter members. The present Supreme Court is consequently the twenty-fifth in the history of the club. It has been the custom for the undergraduate clubs to have dinners, but anything like a reunion has never before been attempted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reunion of Pow Wow Law Club. | 3/21/1896 | See Source »

...custom to elect three first year men to the Harvard Law Review every year in March. The three for this year have just been elected. None of them are Harvard men. They are Logan Hay (Yale '93) of Springfield, III., a member of the Pow-Wow law club; J. P. Hall (Cornell '94) of Jamestown, N.Y., a member of the Ames-Gray law club; and Douglas Campbell (Union College '94) of Cherry Valley, N. Y., a member of the Thayer law club. These men are elected by the board of editors, chiefly on the reputation made by them during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Law Review. | 3/19/1895 | See Source »

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