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Dean Pound's contributions to the work of penetrating and analyzing the law are known to every student of jurisprudence. His well-rounded erudition, his thorough and complete understanding mark the Supreme Court as the ultimate bound of his deserts. But with this scholarship there is a rare mingling of humanness and strength which has won for Dean Pound a preeminent position among academic administrators and for the Law School a prestige scarcely rivaled. The dean took hold of this department at a time when the earlier generation of juris-consults, including Langdell, Ames, and Thayer, had died, leaving...
...this benefactress? She is no less than a onetime candidate for President of the United States. Yet history books make little or no mention of her. By name she is Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, now in her 87th year. Complete and reliable accounts of her life are rare, but the following outline is gleaned from a pamphlet published by one of her supporters several decades...
...vast crowd of official diplomatic and social Washingtonians. The furnishings of the home of the late Senator Frank D. Brandegee, who committed suicide last fall, had been put up at public sale. The hammer fell repeatedly as the public bought valuable furniture, Oriental rugs, beautiful books and a rare collection of paintings, etchings, prints, including many portraits of men of the Revolutionary period...
...Unfortunately great personalities in politics are extremely rare" he continued. "Most people seem to have the idea that Congress is or should be made up of super-men; all high above the average in honesty, intelligence, and ability. If that were so, they would not truly be 'the House of Representatives' of a nation which is made up of common, ordinary people like ourselves, sitting here in the Union, or in a country store, or in a business office. So it is strange that people, who unconcernedly watch an ordinary man go wrong, are so unduly surprised and indignant when...
...good teachers. ... I realize the force of the plea that a board of trustees should pay for their own mistakes, but is it they who pay? ... I am inclined to think that early retirement on a pension would in many cases be better economy. . . . But this is a rare practice and needs nerve on the part of an administrator...