A professorship of judicial organization and administration as one of the urgent needs of the Law School is emphasized by Dean Pound in his recent report to the President. Judicial organization and administration is a subject, said the report, in which a professor of law might achieve results that would be of great practical value in a matter of much public moment.

"In many of our commonwealths," said Dean Pound, "a system of organization that grew up for the rural, pioneer, agricultural society of a century ago is inadequate to the demands of the urban industrial society of today. Here, as elsewhere, the tendency is to go on tinkering with petty details, instead of studying the matter thoroughly from the ground up. The subject ought to be approached in the same spirit in which Story approached the different, but no less difficult, problem of his day. To make a commercial law for America from the English decisions on the law merchant, the Continental treatises on commercial law, and the applicable doctrines of the common law, and to enable us to receive English law and English equity as a practically applicable system for the new world were not easy tasks. Like tasks await us today in connection with criminal law, legislation, and judicial organization and administration. What Dane's foundation did in the nineteenth century, like foundations may do in the twentieth."