Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...takes more than honest mediocrity to administer the law." These words of Professor Pound gave the keynote to the speeches at the Third Year Law dinner. Ex-President Taft expressed a similar thought in asking for experts to restore the dignity of the law. President Eliot, a short while ago, called the refuge which lawyers take in technicalities to the exclusion of principles one of the causes of the failure of our courts. Thus the teacher and the practicer of law, and the layman and scholar have united in an appeal to broadly trained men to save us from...
...President Taft on the Courts...
...President Taft took a middle position on the question of parties and principles, declaring that at present, parties, though imperfect, afford the only practical means of interpreting the opinion of the voters. The main theme of his address, however, concerned the present coition of the courts. He declared that "in many places the administration of civil justice is a disgrace to this country. In the western states, particularly, the people have harmed the courts to an extent that is almost irremediable. The same change that has characterized the wanton election of judges has extended to other offices...
...speakers will be as follows: L. P. Percy 3L., toastmaster; Professor Samuel Williston '82, Professor Roscoe Pound; Dean E. r Thayer '88, Mr. J. T. Williams, editor-in-chief of the Boston Transcript; Mr. Moorfield Storey '66, expresident of the American bar Association; and Ex-president Taft...
...tomorrow afternoon. The team will meet in Harvard square at 2.15 o'clock and will go by special car to the South Station. Leaving Boston on the 3 o'clock New York train, the team will reach New Haven at 6.41 o'clock, and will go direct to the Taft Hotel where it will spend the night. It his been decided not to stay in New London or Farmington over night, as has been the custom in former years, because of the long tiresome trip to New Haven, the morning of the meet, which that entails...