Word: williston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Law School and the Harvard Law School Association Presented a plaque yesterday to Samuel Williston, '82, Dane Professor of Law, Emeritus, on his one-hundreth birthday...
Erwin Griswald, Dean of the Law School, mfade the presentation to Mrs. Murray F. Hall, Professor Williston's daughter, who accepted the plaque on behalf of her father, the Law School's oldest living graduate...
...Negro Williston Knorl, serving ten years for robbery, sculptured a life-sized crucifix, using as model his friend, Negro Herbie Hall, a murderer sentenced to life. When the figure of Christ was finished, Hall painted it with gruesome bruises, cuts, and trickles of blood. "We read all the books we could find to see how Christ must have been," says Painter Hall, a Moslem. "It's a little grotesque to some people, I guess, but it's real. We knew it wouldn't be a pretty thing, but a person being crucified wouldn't be pretty...
...past, every members of the Committee on Admissions read each candidate's folder. Next year, however, the Committee (currently Mrs. Phillips Farrington, acting Director; and Associate Director; Deans Eliott, Williston, and Sherman; the Director of Financial Aid; and President Bunting) will divide up the applications into small groups, each to be assessed by one member. The change is designed to save time; it also suggests that the Committee wonders whether recent applications have been read with sufficient care...
Looking very harassed, Premier Souvanna replied that the captain "has no say in military decisions." At week's end the U.S. suspended military aid to Laos, because, said General Williston B. Palmer, director of military assistance, "the situation is so confused we have not been sure who is responsible for anything...