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When the liberal economist's tenure appointment came up before the 30-man Board of Overseers in the spring of 1948, it was met with severe hostility and nearly was rejected. In a dramatic eleventh-hour maneuver, the late U.S. District Judge Charles E. Wyzanski '27 was able to push a resolution through the Board delaying the nomination while many of the anti-Galbraith faction were distracted by the Band which was playing outside University Hall. With the extra time the Galbraith forces regrouped and President James B. Conant '14 scolded the overseers--putting his presidency on the line, some...
...Wyzanski ruled that schools could not regulate student hair length, eliminated corporal punishment in Boston public schools and told Washington officials that the Vietnam War was being waged illegally...
After beginning his career as a clerk under the preeminent judges, Augustus and Leonard Hand, Wyzanski became a member of the "brain trust" of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and successfully argued several significant cases on New Deal legislation before the Supreme Court. Known as the "infant prodigy" of Roosevelt's coterie, Wyzanski served in the New Deal Administration from 1933 until 1937, helping draft the Social Security Act and numerous tax laws...
...Wyzanski enjoyed a reputation for a rarely equalled intellect and a fondness for friendly debate. "He had a talent for provoking people into discussion and disputation," said Law School Professor Emeritus Paul A. Freund, a longtime friend...
...Wyzanski was also an avid book collector, amassing what former clerk Stephen R. Latham '82 called "a house filled with wall-to-wall books." Associates praised Wyzanski's dedication to legal scholarship, noting that he wrote his own opinions--an increasingly uncommon practice...