Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have all the great law teachers in the country, but we do have more of them than any other school," Griswold said at one point in his 40-minute talk to several hundred law students, prospective law students, and interested bystanders...
Answering an objection from the floor, Griswold debunked the old idea that one out of three students at Harvard Law are flunked out. "Actually, the number who don't come back after the first year is about 10 percent," he said. "And half of those turn out to be at some disadvantage, such as poor health, which would handicap them at any school...
Gummere described the admission of students as a "cross between the science of human relations and the use of a sliding technical scale." A boy's predicted rank in college, he said, plays an important role in the final decision...
Canavan labelled the present system, with rates varying in different localities, "unfair." He said that motorists in Boston and other large cities travel on congested roads and therefore have more accidents. He also believes that many of the accidents in a particular community are often caused by transients rather than residents...
...made a list of every kind of job we could think of," said Director John W. Holt in announcing the new program. "Under each kind of job," he explained, "we put down all the people in the Boston area who can provide...