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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School's example of direct action should find its counterpart in the national sphere in the form of a proposal to determine the status of judicial review by constitutional amendment. From the Administration's viewpoint, there could be no more propitious time to carry out their reform constitutionally by amendment. Sticking by the letter of the law and not the spirit, as President Roosevelt expects to do through a sly application of his appointive power, is obviously as great a crime as any judgment the Supreme Court could possibly hand down. The crowning example of irony, however, rests...
...graduated from Amherst magna cum laude, went to Harvard Law School and became one of Felix Frankfurter's "Hot Dog Boys." He and his .cousin Charles H. Houston are the only two Negroes ever to have served on the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review. He has taught law in Howard (Negro) University in Washington, practiced it with his cousin's Washington law firm, Houston & Houston. For the last three years as assistant solicitor of the Interior Department, he has done much work on the problems of the Virgin Islands with their nearly 95% Negro population. Light...
...laboring under a heavy burden. Its difficulties in this respect were superficially lightened some years ago by authorizing the Court, in its discretion, to refuse to hear appeals in many classes of cases. This discretion was so freely exercised that in the last fiscal year, although 867 petitions for review were presented to the Supreme Court, it declined to hear 717 cases...
Four members of the Faculty of the Law School have written articles for the February issue of the Harvard Law Review. Roscoe Pound, recently retired Dean of the Law School, has written "Fifty Years of Jurisprudence": Sam B. Warner '12, professor of Penal Legislation and Administration, and Philip Cabot, professor of Business Administration, contributed "Changes in the Administration of Criminal Justice during the Past Fifty Years", and Livingston Hall, assistant professor of Law, has written "The Substantive Law, of Crimes...
Pictorials are the chief cause for a photographic staff. The normal necessities of a daily paper which in no way attempts to compete with the tabloids are not so much as to overburden, or even stimulate, two or three alert eameramen. A series of photographic review of the university will provide tutereating work for three times that number...