Word: vanderbilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry H. Hill, president of George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tenn., called the program an entirely new approach which should put teaching on a competitive basis with law, business and other fields in attracting the best college graduates. Peabody College offers a joint training program with Vanderbilt University...
...chance for administrative improvement lies in the assignment of judges. Explains Vanderbilt: "It is intolerably bad business administration to have some judges overworked while others sit by half idle . . . This means that someone must be given the power to assign the trial judges to those courts where they are most needed." The obvious person to be given this administrative power, says Vanderbilt, is the top judicial officer in each state (in most cases, the chief justice...
...seen in the weekly summary of reports from every New Jersey judge, listing hours spent on the bench, cases and motions heard, and decisions reserved. These reports on individual performance are distributed to all judges. The effect on indolent judges when their laziness is thus exposed has, Arthur Vanderbilt says tersely, been "truly remarkable...
...fight for improved court systems is not one that can be-or should be-confined to the legal profession. Judge Vanderbilt candidly says that "where cures have occurred, they have generally been effected under the impetus of a popular revolt of laymen against the quaint professional notion that the courts exist primarily for the benefit of judges and lawyers and only incidentally for the benefit of the litigants and the state." Against the members of the bar and the bench who stand in the way of reform, Vanderbilt issues a scathing indictment: "I am convinced that the criminals, the gangsters...
...Arthur Vanderbilt was once the Republican leader of Essex County...