Clients of the Harvard Legal Aid Society, for the most part, bring their rent squabbles and bills for conditional sales, it has been recently revealed by the Society. Numerous college cases have come before them in the past few months. These cases usually have to do with petty bills and telephone company misunderstandings. The most frequent cases from those people outside of the University are those to do with the installment collectors. The crank who continually takes his smallest troubles to "law" is the most frequent visitor to the free legal service bureau.
The Legal Aid was started by the Law School Society of the Phillips Brooks House and remained part of it for several years. Until 1915, the central offices of the bureau were in Brooks House. At that time it was merely a committee of a larger organizations. Even with the removal of the office to Austin hall, the societies remained very close to each other; both the chairman and secretary of Phillips Brooks Law Society were ex officio members of the Legal Aid. Since 1930, the members of the society have been chosen for their scholarship alone. There remains little connection between the Society and Brooks House today.
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