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Law students, law professors, and embryo women lawyers handed down judgements yesterday about the impending infiltration of women into the Law School.
Men almost unanimously cheered the new policy which goes into effect September, 1950. It was the women who were unhappy about the lifting of the sex barrier at the Law School.
"Harvard Law was the last major law school that taught only men," said Margaret Fecheimer, Radcliffe '52 and Mary Jean Hazard '50. "We would have liked to seen some school left where there are no women. This way it's like the end of an era."
Radcliffe girls were cool to the Law School even when they had no choice. Last June, Alice B. Gilbert '49 and Antonia Chaves '49 told a group of Boston reporters they wouldn't go to Harvard Law if they could-and entrained for Yale.
Richard W. Wallach '49, 1L said the admission of women was a submission to need, "At least as many women are in solved in divorce and alimony litigation as men. For training in the wily marriage bargain nothing can beat Professor Kaplan on contracts," he said.
Edmund M. Morgan '02, professor of Law, regarded women in law schools as inevitable."
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