Materials relating to the Ames Competition, 1939-1940.

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Materials relating to the Ames Competition, 1939-1940.

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Bound volume of typescript briefs for the Ames Competition for the years 1939-1940, with material relating to admmission to the Massachusetts Bar laid in, compiled and written bu William Augustus Waldron.

1 v. ; 29 cm.

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Harvard Law School

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Law clubs were established to provide students an opportunity to practice preparing and arguing law cases as realistically as possible. Law clubs began to be founded at Harvard in the 19th century; one of the earliest was the Marshall Club, founded in 1825. In 1910, the Board of Student Advisers was formed, and the more formal Ames Competition in Appellate Brief Writing and Advocacy was established. From the description of General information by and about Harvard Law School clubs, 18...

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Waldron, William Augustus.

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William Augustus Waldron, II earned his AB at Union College in 1935. He became one of the first five to obtain a Graduate Fellowship in Government at Harvard. Students with this fellowship were also known as "Public Service Training Fellows". The fellowships, established in 1935, were connected to a program in Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for training in public service which evolved into the Graduate School of Public Administration, which in turn became the Kennedy School of Go...