Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

Harvard Law Salma! ltacara Every Wedliesday morning during the school year, with time off for exam periods, the Law School Rcfcorzl, the oldest law school newspaper in the country, makes its appear- ance on the tables in Langdell and Austin, and on several local newstands. This has been going on since 1946, when a group of vet- erans enrolled in the Law School decided that the School needed a newspaper. The Record serves a dual function, in serving the law student and Law School Alumni. Each week 5000 copies go out to students and alumni, the Recora' reaching all forty-eight states and eight foreign countries. To the students, the Record supplies news of what is happening around the School and more important, serves as a medium through which the students may voice their com- plaints and problems. Very often, the fac- ulty, too, uses the Letters to the Editor column for raising policy questions and ex- pressing their opinions. An example of this during the past year was the post-election wrangle between Professor Amory and the Law School Democratic Club. A volunteer staff gathers the news of the week and assembles in the oflices high on the third floor of Austin to put it together' in readable form. The major part of the labor takes place on Friday, Monday and Tuesday, when the oflice is alive with pre-publications activity. On Tuesday, the Editorial Manager and his assistants repair to the print shop in Kendall Square, and there the final processes of composition take place. At that time the position of each story and feature in the paper is finally determined. In addition to carrying the most important news stories, page one carries articles of timely importance by various distinguished alumni, judges and people in other fields who have something of interest to say to law students and lawyers in general. In the past year, the Record has included an article on The Sorio-Economic Approach af Yale Law Sclrool by Jess Dukeminier ex-'49, a Lefl lo Right, First Row: S. Lyons, H. Caron, J. Rirholz, A. Smith fPresidentj, J. Indick, L. Rachlin, H. Traehtenbergg Second Row: M. Foner, N. Paven, R. Ehrenbard, J. Thalhofer, NV. Hack, J. Reiss, N. Siegel, J. Fischg Third Row: C. Barrett, W. Scheurich, E. Feldman, H. Scharf, M. Barr, W. Kennedy, lfourib Row: D. Vernon, I. Markowitz, S. Hack, S. Golden, D. Sklar Page one hundred seventy-eight