LAW STEADYING FORCE IN WAR

Considering the small number of law men new in the University the attendance at the annual Law School reception last evening was large.

L. H. Landau, President of the Harvard Law Society, and also of the Law Review, introduced Dean Pound as the first speaker of the evening. Dean Pound drove home his advice by a series of humorous anccdotes, mostly taken from his own experiences. He pointed out the importance of thorough preparation in law as well as in military matters, urged the necessity for every law student to have his technical terms accurate, and stated that the function of the Law School was to "teach students how to learn."

Chairman Landau then introduced President Lowell, who noted the advantages which the small number of students would bring to each man: the relations between the professors and students will be much more intimate, smaller classes will permit more men to join in discussions, and wil enable instructors to give more time to each Individual. "Although we are in a state of war," President Lowell said, "the importance of the law is only more enhanced, inasmuch as it is crystallized civilization, and therefore a great steadying force in times such as these."