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Excerpt from Report of the Organization and of the First General Meeting at Cambridge, November 5, 1886: On the First Day of the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of Harvard College The general object of the Association is to bring together, by means of an active, efficient organization, which shall hold a stated meeting at least once each year, all those members of the legal profession who are connected by the common bond of having made their preparation, or some part of their preparation, for the practice of the law in the Harvard Law School. It is hoped also that the Association may be made a powerful means of in creasing the in uence and usefulness of the Law School itself, through the organization of Law School Clubs in the different cities, on the plan of the Harvard Clubs now existing all over the country, and by any other means which may in future be deemed advisable. The object of this circular is to obtain information as to the state of feeling among graduates and former students of the Law School in reference to the proposed Association. AS the suc cess of the Whole plan will depend largely upon its favorable reception by those who are at a distance, you are earnestly re quested to make a thorough canvass Of the Law School men of your acquaintance and in your vicinity, in order to ascertain their sentiments, and to create an interest in favor of the Association. AS yet nothing has been done beyond calling a meeting of Law School graduates residing in Boston, at which a committee was appointed to prepare a plan of organization, and report at a future meeting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Covers the later years of his life, closing with his death.
With the election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Louis D. Brandeis emerged as the undisputed intellectual leader of those reformers who were trying to recreate a democratic society free from the economic and political depradations of monopolistic enterprise. But now these reformers had a champion in the White House, and direct access to him through one of his most trusted advisers. In this volume we see what was probably the high point of progressive reform—the first three years of the Wilson Administration. During these years Brandeis was considered for a Cabinet position, consulted frequently on matters of patronage, and called in at key junctures to determine policy. But he still kept up his many obligations to different reform groups: arguing cases before the Supreme Court, acting as public counsel in rate hearings, writing Other People's Money, one of the key exposés of the era, as well as advising his good friend Robert M. LaFollette and other reform leaders. Yet at the height of his career as a reformer, Brandeis suddenly took on another heavy obligation, the leadership of the American Zionist movement, and helped marshal Jews in this country to aid their brethren in war-ravaged Europe and Palestine. Carrying over his democratic ideals, he challenged the established American Jewish aristocracy in the Congress movement, in order to broaden the base of Jewish participation in important issues. At the end of 1915, Brandeis was an important figure not only in domestic reform and Jewish affairs, but on the international scene as well. And although no one knew it at the time, he stood at the brink of nomination to the nation's highest court. As in the earlier volumes, these letters indicate the inner workings of American reform, and they also show how American Zionism, under the leadership of Brandeis and his lieutenants, assumed those characteristics that would make it a unique and powerful instrument in world politics.