DEAN OF LAW SCHOOL CHOSEN

The office of Dean of the Law School, left vacant by the recent death of Dean Ezra R. Thayer '88, has been filled by the selection of Professor Roscoe Pound for that position. His appointment by the Corporation has been confirmed by the Overseers.

Dr. Pound was born in Lincoln, Neb., where he later practiced law. He received his A.B. at the University of Nebraska in 1888, an A.M. the following year, and was given a Ph.D. in 1897. He was a student at the Law School from 1889 to 1890, and returned to teach in 1910. Two years before he commenced teaching at the Law School he was awarded an honorary LL.M. by the North-western University, and five years later received an LL.D. at the University of Michigan. Before he took up his work at the Law School. Dr. Pound was a professor of law at the University of Chicago. He held the position of Story professor of law during his first three years at the Law School, but was appointed Carter professor of general jurisprudence in 1913.

Professor Pound has written many monographs and articles for European and American botanical journals. He was one of the editors of Flora of Nebraska, and of Reports of the Botanical Survey of Nebraska. He has also written a great many articles on legal topics which have been published in the leading magazines and periodicals of the day. Lately much of his time has been given to graduate courses in the Law School.

The former head of the Law School, Dean Ezra R. Thayer '88, had the full co-operation of Professor Pound. In the search for a man to take up the work after the loss of Dean Thayer, the overseers of the University in no way could have made such a good requital as by giving the appointment to Professor Pound, who had been so closely associated with Dean Thayer.

Professor Pound has seen from the first and clearly understood the responsibility of the law schools of the country; namely, that they are the laboratories of juristic thought, and the place where the science of remodelling American jurisprudence should be carried on