In his recent report to President Lowell for the year 1923-24, Dean Pound of the Law School indicated several of the most crying needs which that department of the University is feeling at the present time. The deficiency of buildings and equipment he depicts as having reached a point "incompatible with the standard of the Law School work in the past," and the endowment of faculty chairs as being "a mossly inadequate provision for a school of 1200 students."

300 More Men But No More Rooms

In pointing out the lack of proper build: It pointing out the jack of proper building facilities, Dean Pound shows that although the attendance at the Law School has increased by about 300 men daring the past four years, no corresponding increase in lecture and reading rooms has been made. At present there are eight lecture rooms available, one of which must soon be converted into a library. "In the two principal lecture rooms in Langdell Hall", he says, "and the three principal lecture rooms in Austin Hall, the capacity indicated is to he had only by crowding in extra chairs man extent which is not consistent with convenient use of the rooms, and in some instances is downright unsafe. In two lecture rooms it has been necessary to put in chairs with no bench or arm upon which to write. Obviously such a condition impairs the effectiveness of the teaching."

Four New Chairs Imperative

The most poignant need according to Dean Pound, seems to be that of a proper endowment for the Chairs of Criminal Justice and the addition of others. Under this, be believes that the addition of four new professorships is imperative, the ones suggested being Legislation, Judicial Organization, Administration and Legal History.

"Administration of criminal justice," he said, "is admittedly the weakest point in American polity. Thus far what is doing toward improvement is superficial, spasmodic, and often blundering. No subject of research affords greater possibilities. With an endowed chair which would enable a competent scholar to devote his life to this subject, in view of the complete library facilities which the school possesses, in view of the opportunities at hand in and about Boston, and in view of the national character of the student body and especially the large numbers of law teachers who come for graduate research, there is every reason why a professor of Criminal Law at Harvard should achieve for the law of tomorrow what Story and Greenleaf, Parsons and Washburn did for the law of the past."

Wants National Study of Legislation

In the matter of the professor of Legislation. Dean Pound continues, "One of the chief problems of today is how to enforce the huge output of legal precepts required by the complex life of urban industrial communities. Here again is a subject in which a professorship, in a national school, in which students from every part of the country compel the teacher to consider the question from many points of view, may do great things for the law."

In summing up the situation, Dean Pound reviews the complete facilities for instruction at the Law School. "At present he says, "the teaching staff consists of 14 professors (one of whom is a librarian and has charge of guiding students in the use of books, and hence is not available for general instruction), three assistant professors, and one instructor. Just half of the full professor- of endowment. In view of its past achievements, the work it is now doing, the importance of its work for every-day needs of the country, and the possibilities it has for some of the most pressing problems of the time, the school ought to be able to make a powerful appeal for endowment commensurate with what has been provided for other educational institutions.