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...Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor Emeritus, agreed that TV is valuable for close-up demonstrations. Chafee, who gives a course on "Human Rights and the Constitution," also agreed that the lack of audience contact is a defect. "I never gave a straight lecture at the College," he explained. "I always let the students ask questions. But on TV I can never be sure I've gotten my point across, and I lack the benefit of class opinion...
...Zechariah Chafee. Perhaps you would not have been quite so kind if you had been aware of "Zach's" goodbye to you in one of his last classes at the Law School. In describing LIFE and TIME, he said: "Everyone knows those two magazines-you know, the one for people who can't read and the one for the people who can't think...
...Harvard Law School's debonair Zechariah ("Zack") Chafee Jr., 70, an expert on equity law who won both popular and academic acclaim as one of the nation's most lucid authorities on freedom of the press and civil liberties. A classmate of the late Senator Robert Taft at Harvard Law School, Chafee later joined the faculty to find himself teaching such promising young men as Dean Acheson, Archibald MacLeish, Joseph N. Welch and Kenneth Royall, was so handy with the apt anecdote that he became known as "the Scheherazade of the law school." He gradually emerged...
...three outstanding faculty members nominated and duly approved by the Board of Overseers. This year, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor emeritus, would seem to stand only a fair chance. Odds are somewhat better on Douglas W. Horton, Dean of the rising Divinity School, or traditional favorite Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor, who retires this year...
...guess I'm a conservative," says University Professor Zechariah Chafee, Jr. of the Law School, "because I believe in the Constitution." Retiring this June after nearly four decades of legal study, practice, and teaching, Chafee looks back on a career dedicated to that firs belief in the principles and guarantees of the Constitution...