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Among 1500 students of the Law school, a survey is being conducted to determine to what extent the preparation for a legal career has been hampered by generally unfavorable economic conditions. George W. Wickersham, chairman of the Committee of Legal Education of the Bar of the City of New York, is directing this investigation among first, second, and third year students at the Law School, and in other schools throughout the country...
...Meanwhile President Hoover, who will have to stand on any Prohibition plank carpentered by the Convention, continued diligently to pursue his policy of silent neutrality. Ever since he threw away his chance, offered by the report of the Wickersham Commission, to take a Wet stand, he has been increasingly regarded by the public as a Dry. His friends report that he is irritated by the liquor agitation, calls it "poppycock," insists that the question is one for Congress to deal with first...
...Baker's opposition to the Eighteenth Amendment and his support of the resubmission of the prohibition question to the states was made clear in an independent report delivered as a member of the Wickersham commission. No true believer in democracy could hod otherwise that the law to be valid and effective must rest on general consent and if that consent be wanting in large and populous sections the law must be changed...
...forty-first annual meeting of the Harvard Teacher's Society will take place tomorrow in Memorial Hall at 9.30 o'clock. Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School will speak and also the Honorable G. W. Wickersham...
...luncheon will take place at 1 o'clock in Memorial Hall, the toastmaster of which is to be Dean H. W. Jones of the Law School. At the luncheon Dean Pound will speak on "Education and Legal Order"; and Hon. G. W. Wickersham, Chairman of the Commission on Law Enforcement, will give a talk "Is Education a deterrent to Crime...