The election of Brooks Potter 2L, of Bolton to the position of President of the Legal Aid Society and of Summer Hovey Babcock 2L, of Cambridge to the position of Vice-President was announced today by E. S. Reid 3L., the retiring President. The rest of the officials of the Society will be elected next fall.

The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau is a Massachusetts corporation whose members are second and third year students in the Harvard Law School, and are elected on the basis of scholarship. The Bureau is chartered for the purpose of giving legal aid and assistance to deserving persons. In consequence, members of the Bureau are entitled to practice law in any of the courts of the Commonweatlh without having previously gained admission to the bar.

The Legal Aid Bureau has offices at Central Square which, being the most congested district of Cambridge, is the most favorable location for the people of small means seeking aid in legal matters who make up the largest part of the clientele. Students of the University, however, are also entitled to assistance which is given free of charge on all occasions.

The Legal Aid Bureau handles cases of all types although E. S. Reid said that experience has shown that most cases are concerned with domestic relations, landlord and tenant and wage disputes, and petty torts. In order not to be used as a divorce mill, the Bureau has all cases dealing with domestic cases investigated by the Cambridge Welfare Union before acting upon them.

The Legal Aid organization had its origin in a small group of Law School students brought together in 1893 by Professor Eugene Wambaugh '76, who has since retired from the Faculty of the Law School.