Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the faculty of the Law School, acting as individuals, have signed recently a "round-robin" protest against the proposed changes in the Federal judicial system, particularly in reference to the alteration of the Supreme Court...
...protest is as follows: "The undersigned, members of the faculty of the Harvard Law School, though varying in their political opinions and their views as to the desirability of some of the policies of the present administration, are agreed that a provision, under the plan proposed, empowering the President to appoint justices to the Supreme Court of the United States in addition to the number now authorized by law, is undesirable...
Those professors who signed the protest are as follows: Joseph H. Beale '82, Royall Professor of Law; Joseph Warren '97, Weld Professor of Law; Samuel Williston '82, Dane Professor of Law; Sheldon Gluock, professor of Criminology; and Ralph J. Baker, Morton C. Campbell, George K. Gardner '12, Erwin N. Griswold, Eldon R. James, W. Barton Leach '21, John M. Maguire, William E. McCurdy '16, Warren A. Seavey '02, Sidney Post Simpson, James B. Thayer '31, Edward S. Thurston '98, Edward H. Warren '95, all professors of Law, and Livingston Hall, assistant professor...
During the day petitions against the bill which will be reviewed by the Legislature next week are to be circulated through the College. At the end of tonight's meeting a telegram of protest goes out to the Committee on Education which will be directing the hearing...
...other reason than to erase an anomaly, ineffective as it may be, from the statutes of a democratic state, the Oath Bill should be struck out of the books. The protest tonight, on the eve of the hearing, should help to crystalyze opposition...