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WILL DISCUSS "PUBLIC LIFE AND THE LAW"

Speaker Was Attorney-General in Taft's Administration--Was President of N. Y. City Bar Association

Hon. George W. Wickersham of New York will give the first of the series of vocational talks arranged by the Committee on the Choice of Vocations, at the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. Wickersham, who will be introduced by Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, fellow of Harvard College, is to speak on "Public Life and Law as a Career." Contrary to previous announcements, only members of the University will be admitted to the talk.

Mr. Wickersham served as Attorney-General from 1909 to 1913 in the cabinet of President Taft, and is now a member of the firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft of 40 Wall street, New York. He received his degree of L.L.B. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1880, and was awarded an honorary degree of L.L.B. at Harvard in 1921. Besides being a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and a past president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Mr. Wickersham is a trustee of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, and of Barnard College. He is also an officer of the Legion of Honor.

Preceding his lecture, Mr. Wickersham will be the guest of honor at a small dinner at the Union.

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