Harvard Success

At Harvard Law school are some 1,500 students. Of these some 375 will be given degrees. Of these some 30 or 32 by high academic achievement are on the board of the Harvard Law Review, of which only one is President. Revealing was a check made last week of the careers of the last 15 of these Presidents.

Although all students who graduate from Harvard Law School have fair measure of legal standing in the disillusioned eyes of practicing lawyers, it is the President of the Harvard Law Review at whom they cast glances not appraising but accepting, not supercilious but nearly reverential. Enviable is the position of the President of the Harvard Law Review; he may practically choose what potent law firm he will serve after graduation. Similarly Presidents of law reviews and journals at other law schools achieve in varying degrees the quasi-Olympian privilege of being able to choose, instead of having to ask.

The last 15 Presidents of the Harvard Law Review and their positions are: 1914, Boykin C. Wright, senior partner, Cotton & Franklin, New York; 1915, Robert P. Patterson, partner, Webb, Patterson & Hadley, New York; 1916, Gerard C. Henderson,* senior partner, Cravath, Henderson & Degersdorff, New York; 1917, Charles Bunn, partner, Doherty, Rumble, Bunn & Butler, St. Paul; 1918, Lloyd H. Landau, special counsel, Public Service, St. Louis; 1919, George E. Osborne, Professor of Law at Stanford University; 1920, Cloyd Laporte, junior partner, Root, Clark, Buckner, Rowland & Ballantine, New York; 1921, Donald C. Swatland, junior partner, Cravath, Degersdorff, Swaine & Wood, New York; 1922, Bertram F. Willcox, junior partner, Schurman, Wiley & Willcox, New York; 1923. James M. Nicely, second vice president, National Bank of Commerce, New York; 1924, Warren S. Ege, associate in Davis, Severance & Morgan, St. Paul; 1925, Robert G. Page, associate in Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballantine; 1926, David F. Cavers, associate in Rushmore, Bisbee & Stern, New York; 1927, Henry J. Friendly, associate in Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballantine; 1928, Erwin N. Griswold, assistant to Professor Austin W. Scott, Harvard Law School. This year's President is Herman Thomas Austern.

* Died Aug. 31, 1927, only one of the 15 Presidents mentioned in Who's Who.