Records of the Office of the Dean, 1910-1982 (inclusive).

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Records of the Office of the Dean, 1910-1982 (inclusive).

1910-1982

Includes official correspondence files of Deans Ezra R. Thayer, Roscoe Pound, J. M. Landis, Erwin N. Griswold, Andrew J. Casner, and Derek C. Bok. Thayer correspondence concerns routine matters, such as admissions and examinations. Correspondents include Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Julian Mack and William Howard Taft. Other correspondence concerns faculty appointments, staff, endowment; topics such as post-World War II planning and correspondence of the Vice Dean . For more detailed information about records, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Bok, Derek C. (Derek Curtis), 1930-

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Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and the former president of Harvard University. Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Following his parents' divorce, he, his mother, brother and sister moved several times, ultimately to Los Angeles, where he spent much of his childhood. He graduated from Stanford University (B.A., 1951), Harvard Law School (J.D., 1954), attended Sciences Po, and George Washington University (A.M., 1958). Bok taught law at Harva...

Pound, Nathan Roscoe, 1870-1964

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Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – June 30, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a member of the faculty at UCLA School of Law in the school's early years, from 1949 to 1952. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Pound as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century. ...

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Thayer, Ezra Ripley, 1866-1915

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Thayer graduated from Harvard in 1888, taught law and was Dean of the Harvard Law School. From the description of Papers of Ezra Ripley Thayer, 1911-1915 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972897 Attorney, teacher, administrator. LL.B. Harvard Law School 1891, Dane Prof. and Dean 1910-1915. Secretary to Justice Horace Gray, U.S. Supreme Court 1892-1893. Practiced law in Boston 1893-1910. Author: References to Cases and Statutes to Accompany Lectures on ...

New York University

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The Class Collection documents selected student and alumni activities of New York University graduating classes from 1843-1966. Formal and informal gatherings were common, and were documented in detail by the participants. From the description of Class collection, 1843-1966. 1880-1900 (bulk). (New York University). WorldCat record id: 477254465 New York University (formerly, University of the City of New York), is an academic institution and, as such, its faculty produces ar...

Prentice Hall (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Casner, A. James (Andrew James), 1907-1990

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Law professor. LL.B., U. of Ill., 1929; S.J.D., Columbia U., 1941. Col. in U.S. Air Force, 1942-1945; Faculty of Harvard Law Sschool, 1938-1977 (retired). Publications: Estate Planning (1961, suppl. 1976). From the description of Papers, 1961-1971 (inclusive). (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236047264 Andrew James Casner was born in Chicago in 1907. He received an LL.B. degree from the University of Illinois in 1929, and an A.B., also from the ...

Taft, William Howard, 1857-1930

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William Howard Taft (1857-1930) was an American politician who served as U.S. President (1908-1912) and Chief Justitce of the Supreme Court (1921-1930). 1857 Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 15th 1878 Graduated from Yale University 1880 Graduated from Cincinnati Law School ...

Mack, Julian W. (Julian William), 1866-1943

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Lawyer, judge, and law professor at Northwestern University and University of Chicago. From the description of Papers, 1854-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70947183 ...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935

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Holmes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. Dr. Holmes was a leading figure in Boston intellectual and literary circles. Mrs. Holmes was connected to the leading families; Henry James Sr., Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists were family friends. Known as "Wendell" in his youth, Holmes, Henry James Jr. and William James became lifelong friends. Holmes accordingly grew up in an atmospher...

Bruce, William Liddell, Mrs., 1868-

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Landis, James McCauley, 1899-1964

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James McCauley Landis (1899-1964), lawyer and government official, was Special Assistant to the President on Regulatory Agencies during the Kennedy administration. From the description of Landis, James McCauley, 1899-1964 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10581556 Lawyer, educator, consultant ? Dean, 1937-1946. Sec. 1934-1937; chm, 1935-1937. Member, Pres. Emergency Bd. on Nat. Ry. Strike, 1938. Special trial examiner for U.S. Dept. of Labor in Bridg...

Griswold, Erwin N. (Erwin Nathaniel), 1904-1994

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Erwin N. Griswold was born in Cleveland in 1904. He graduated in 1925 from Oberlin College with the A.B. in mathematics and the A.M. in political science. He received the LL. B. degree from Harvard University Law School in 1928 and the S.J.D. degree in 1929. From 1929 to 1934, he served in the Office of Solicitor General, returning to Cambridge in 1934. He taught on the Law Faculty of Harvard Law School from 1934 to 1967 and was Dean from 1946 to 1967. From 1967 to 1973, he was U.S. Solicitor Ge...