Word: wickershamed
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Appointments may be made at the Union today for the Conferences arranged by the Committee on the Choice of Vocations in connection with Mr. George W. Wickersham's lecture of last evening. Mr. Henry, Dunn, member of the law firm of Herrick, Smith, Donald and Faley of Boston, who graduated from the Law School at the head of the class of 1902, will hold conferences at the Union today from 2.30 to 4.30 o'clock, and Professor E. R. James '12, Professor of Law and Librarian of the Law School, from 11 to 1 o'clock...
...opening the series of addresses arranged by the Committee on the Choice of Vocations it is peculiarly fitting that Mr. Wickersham should discuss public service as a career. The haphazard injection of butcher, baker, and candlestick maker into public life has resulted largely in that state of affairs which needs only the description of "American politics." The contrast with the English system in which training for a public career begins at Eton and continues at Cambridge has been made too often to be effective, but it points decisively to a remedy for that malady of corruption which has broken...
...George W. Wickersham of New York will give the first of the series of vocational talks arranged by the Committee on the Choice of Vocations, at the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. Wickersham, who will be introduced by Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, fellow of Harvard College, is to speak on "Public Life and Law as a Career." Contrary to previous announcements, only members of the University will be admitted to the talk...
...Wickersham served as Attorney-General from 1909 to 1913 in the cabinet of President Taft, and is now a member of the firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft of 40 Wall street, New York. He received his degree of L.L.B. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1880, and was awarded an honorary degree of L.L.B. at Harvard in 1921. Besides being a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and a past president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Mr. Wickersham is a trustee of the Carnegie Institute...
Preceding his lecture, Mr. Wickersham will be the guest of honor at a small dinner at the Union...