Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard Law School's Story Professor of Law, T. Reed Powell, doubtless feels honored by your attributing to Mr. Justice Holmes Mr. Powell's sly jest as to Mr. Justice Butler's feelings about the procreation of imbeciles in perpetuity [TIME, Nov. 27]. Romantic legends certainly have gathered round Holmes's name; but even a casual reading of his opinion in Buck v. Bell and of Mr. Powell's digest thereof in his Police Power essays, published-as I recall-in the Virginia Law Review, will uncover the source of this...
...give devilish-witted Prof. Thomas Reed Powell his just due, the crack originated thus: Justice Holmes (reading decision): "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Prof. Powell (adding thereto in the Virginia Law Review, June 1931): "Mr. Justice Butler dissents...
tives. Four of these, the Harvard Student Union, the Harvard Pacifists' Association, the John Reed Society, and Avukah, have joined Phi Beta Kappa in tendering their supportto the committee...
...problem at Reed, a progressive college that goes in heavily for the arts and social studies, is to get enough football players for a team. Reed has a normal annual football budget of about $100, charges nothing for admission to games. This fall, having decided that Reed football was becoming too dangerous, Mr. Keezer blew in $300 for shoulder pads, pants, etc. For the fun of it, two young facultymen-Biology Teacher William ("Bill") McElroy, lately a varsity end at Stanford, and Alfred ("Fritz") Hubbard, onetime Carnegie Fellow at Princeton-offered to coach. Result was an unusually big turnout...
President Keezer retaliated by barring the team from all college laboratories and libraries for five days (one day for each victory). President & faculty also began to talk darkly of redeeming Reed's scholastic reputation by paying football players not to come to Reed. In his annual report to the trustees, President Keezer grumped: "I would be happier if football were abandoned entirely." Last straw was an attempt to arrange a "Brain Bowl" game between Reed and oft-trounced University of Chicago. President Keezer put a stop to that...