Word: schoolings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifties had a race against the Crowland Rowing Club when the Regatta opened on July 1st. Like the rest of the week's four racedays, the first day saw the sort of weather which made this summer England's best of the century. The pink and white blazers, the school stripped caps, and the garden-party dresses which always decorate Henley during the Regatta were for once in harmony with the climate. The redcoatted band, the funfair, and the bars were all operating at full tilt as the first shells glided past the green riverbanks to the finish in front...
Cambridge politics, especially the School Committee, is a tiring, tiresome affair. (One ex-mayor says that presiding at School Committee sessions is the worst part of a job that no one but Al Vellucci wants.) Barnes--the perennial "man around the campus"--is an interesting new face on the scene. His obvious energy and enthusiasm will win him votes, if not a hearing among the more cynical local politicians...
...over, Barnes went back to law school and then to the University of Geneva for post-graduate work. (He received a Doctorate from Geneva in 1957.) At Geneva he became interested in the relation between law and international affairs, a field generally known as comparative law. After his studies in Switzerland, he worked at the University of Michigan as a research associate in comparative law before returning to Harvard ten years...
...request of Dean Griswold, he set up the international legal studies program and the World Tax Series--a group of international tax studies carried on with the aid of foundation grants. When Barnes arrived, the Law School had only one course devoted to international law; this fall, a large new building devoted entirely to international legal studies was opened next to Langdell Hall...
...addition to the School Committee campaign, Barnes says he is "really excited" about Latin-American legal relations. "The idea of One America is more than just political talk. It is important to reconcile our concept of the government under law with the Latin American idea of law as what the government says...