Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today is a living monument to the benefits of an active mind. At present he is working on "two or three" articles for law periodicals, and has four talks to law clubs scheduled for later in the week. This afternoon he will undertake a particularly pleasant task; Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, which Pound helped found in 1933, is also having a "birthday" celebration, and he is the principal speaker...
...federal aid, he sees countless pitfalls awaiting the United States. Since as much as $8 billion more per year would go to schools, "the educational committees of the House and Senate will have every reason to examine in detail the curricula and school organization" of the institutions given aid. Such committees, he warns, may be composed of "power-seeking politicians...
...program would mean to the educational standards, "no one is wise enough to foresee." For instance, until a few years ago, certain social science courses might have been forced on the students, if the government had been in control. Today, advanced math and science courses could become high school requirements, Conant says...
...school faculties should allow students to focus their attention on fundamentals rather than detailed facts, Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Harvard Law School, declared Friday at the Centennial of the University of Michigan Law School...
Griswold added that law school students have to work too hard trying to absorb and digest a welter of facts. As a consequence, they have little opportunity for thought and the development of understanding. "Our present system," he said, "may give an undue advantage to a certain type of mind which can handle large quantities of details readily, while unduly minimizing the performance of some other men who may really be better potential lawyers...