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Too few opponents of capital punishment are willing to concede the full weight of the emotion of vengeance. Before reaching the high court, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: "The first requirement of a sound body of law is that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community...
Leach received both the A.B. and LL.B. degrees from Harvard. After leaving the Law School, he served for a year as secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Leach joined the Harvard faculty in 1929. He became Professor of Law in 1931 and Story Professor of Law in 1950.
"...But that's what Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said, 'Sooner or later we shall all fail'. It remains for us to fix our eyes on that point, and get there."
Peter Wendell, president of Princeton's senior class, yesterday expressed mixed reactions to Bowen's appointment. Wendell said that the provost is "obviously an expert in the business and financial management of the university," but added that there were those "who feel he may lack visionary and humanistic characteristics that...
In his position as provost, Bowen worked with the Commission on the Future of the college, which recommended a three-year degree program and a trimester system in an interim report released last weekend. Wendell said he "would not be surprised" to see these changes made under the new administration...