Northeastern University Boston is, Massachusetts
360 Huntington avenue
COMMENTS ON CLOSING OF THE SCHOOL OF UW
Boston GLobe Editorial
Boston Trareler Editorial
April 27, 1953 2.V •.St f'l*
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April 28, 1953
centrate its strength where that strength will do the most good.
community Northeastern serves, when the mat ter is weighed carefully.
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sorrow among alumni.
What Northeastern is doing, in fact, is lift ing its educational energies to fields where the need is greater than it is for turning out law
graduates. As the University officials truly stat^ facilities exist elsewhere in sufficient
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law school, has shown that it has the courage to con
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University authorities'in making this move will doubtless win their approval and that of the
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Step for Northeastern
New Fields of Endeavor The decision of Northeastern University to close its law school wiU'doubttess jolt its many law,alumni Yet the attitude displayed by the
law schools^ Other fields are not so amply
The decision was a tough one, and will cause some
But it should be remembered that a university must IP Fai zin 0C(
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face the facts of life. Enrollment in the law school has been dropping steadily even as enrollment in other de partments of the school increased.
There are enough law schools In the Boston area. Northeastern can afford to concentrate on other fields ot education.
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served^Tcrserve-thenrbetter is sound^olicy. tip— Northeastern has loi^ since established it ab self as an Wtitute whose policies • cannote courage, wise perception 7 of social, economic,
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and scientific trends,- and a. deterfi^ination to serve the community4brough close cooperation. Its latest decision cl^Ves to that ideal
Eliot Wadsworth
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■j Dear Dr. Ell: ••y
The annoancoment in re the School
of Law has just arrived, and if I may say so/ redounds greatly to the credit of the President
and Corporation of Northeastern University. Pew- colleges hfive so frankly faced a cliange in the fundamental educational needs which they seek to meet. In the case of our Law School there seems to he no douht that
the original need no longer exists and that all our assets can better he used in other
fieldst where the demand is certainly grow ing.
Many congratulations on the step you have taken.
Ever sincerely,
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