Law School Reaches Its $15 Million Mark In 4-Year Fund Drive

U. S. Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold spoke Saturday at a dinner held by the Law School to celebrate the end of its most recent fund campaign.

Since 1966, the school has collected $15 million through a fund honoring its 150th anniversary. This amount is the largest ever raised by the school at one time and may be the largest ever raised by any American law school in a single effort.

Speaking before 200 people, Griswold, Langdell Professor of Law, emeritus, and dean of Law School from 1946 to 1967, said. "I hope that there will not be too much yielding to student demands forrelevance. This is, I am inclined to think, a part of that same pressure of The Mass for mediocrity."

"Any acceptance of illegitimate force, no matter how motivated, is unacceptable, and is, indeed, wholly inconsistent with the premises on which this University is founded," Griswold said.

The $15 million financed two new office and classroom buildings at the Law School and provided extra resources for scholarships and loans and the library, and money for research projects and several new professorships.

Derek C. Bok. dean of the Law School, President Pusey, and Robert Amory Jr. '36, national chairman of the Sesquicentennial Fund, also spoke at the dinner.