The coming celebration in honor of Dean Langdell of the Law School affords a highly-prized opportunity to hear the well-known Sir Frederic Pollock, who is to deliver the oration at the public meeting in Sanders Theatre. Sir Frederic Pollock is a graduate of Cambridge in England; he is a University Professor at Oxford, editor of the Law Quarterly Review, and also principal editor of the English Law Reports. His earlier work as an author was chiefly in bringing out the principles which underlie the English case law. Of late, in addition, he has devoted himself largely to historical research. It is doubtful if any other contemporary English legal writer is so well known. He was also among the first, and has been one of the most influential, in the effort to reform the system of legal teaching as practiced in the Inns of Court, and has more than once made public acknowledgement of the debt which England owes in this respect to the example of America, and of the Harvard Law School in particular.