Word: williston
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Samuel Cabot, Jr., Saint Mark's School; A. E. Cleary, Boston Latin School; Sidney Cohen, Classical High School; S. L. Cohen, Boston Latin School; Gordon Crane, Williston Academy; S. E. Davenport, III, Westminster School; F. M. Dearborn, Choate School; R. H. Denison, Loomis Institute; William Dworetsky, Boston Latin School; L. K. Emerson, Exeter; J. N. Eustis, Loomis Institute; W. C. Everett, Exeter; H. L. Fain, Exeter; R. D. Fallon, Exeter; R. S. Fitzgerald, Springfield High School; Aleck freed, Boston Latin School; I. H. Friedberg, Boston Latin School; E. W. Fuller, Jr., Boston Latin School; Oliver Garceau, Newton Country Day School...
Honored. Known to everyone who has been a student at the Harvard Law School where he has taught for 41 years, respected throughout the profession as the outstanding authority on the law of contracts and sales, is Samuel ("Sammy") Williston. He received the Association's medal for conspicuous service rendered in jurisprudence for the year, specifically for "monumental work in restating the law of contracts...
Professor Williston's work on the Committee for uniform legislation among the several states has been found worthy of the highest praise of the American Bar Association. That his time has been spent in a worthy cause no one who has had the simplest interstate experience with its majesty the law can deny. That he has performed it with such signal distinction cannot fail to be a satisfaction to the University which he has served so long...
...most of the first round arguments. The following clubs will meet in the early competitions: Beal vs. Morgan; Bracton vs. Van Devanter; Bryce vs. Taft; Burke vs. Sayre; Cardozo vs. Powell; Chafee vs. Sanford; Choate Parsons vs. Coke; G. Gray vs. Root; Hudson vs. Sayre; Kent vs. Williston; Lowell vs. Thayer-Holmes; Marshall vs. Scott; Plumer vs. Pound; Pollock vs. Warren; Reading vs. Sutherland; J. Smith vs. Story...
Theophilus Parsons (1797-1882) was Dane Professor of Law, succeeding Greenleaf, from 1848 to 1870. His "Treatise on Contracts", published originally in 1853, went through nine editions and was the standard treatise upon the subject until the publication of Professor Samuel Williston's '82 great book in 1920. The time when Parsons taught in association with Joel Parker and Emory Washburn is reckoned as another great period in the school's history...