Whether or not Harvard's and Yale's approaches to the study of law be from different angles, both methods are directed by superior faculties. In age and practical experience. Harvard has the edge. Various members of the faculty, like Professors Scott. W. Barton Leach, and Warren A. Seavey have nation-wide reputations.

The average age of the Yale staff is younger, and it includes-some-non-lawyers. On the question of hiring non-lawyers to teach in law school the two Administrations definitely disagree.

Sturges states. "We do have non-lawers on the staff and would like some more: they have disciplines which are valuable for lawyers."

Non-Lawyers Ineffective

Griswold, on the other hand, argues, "I do not think having non-lawyers on the staff is either effective or significant." Harvard does, he continues, look for lawyers who are interested in other fields--sociology, economics, history--and not necessarily for men who have a long career of practice. Nevertheless, Griswold pointed out in 1950, his faculty has twice as much experience as Yale's. Of course, Harvard's comparative advantage in size allows it to have a larger group of teachers.

Yale students have their own advantage because of size. The relative smallness of the school means that their more famous teachers--men like Professors Starges, Boris I. Bittker, Lasswell, McDougal--are always available to talk law and to help students.

Harvard's answer to criticism on this points, as explained by Griswold is that "the school is already committed to the proposition that it is better for a considerable number of men to study with a great teacher than it is for a smaller group to study with a man of lesser stature."

The Harvard faculty has another shock in store for the new student: the final examination in June. While mid-year trial exams do help Harvard men a bit in preparing for the June experience, the full pressure is absent, and there is far less material to be reviewed. Many men do not prepare for the trial-run exams since the grade docs not count.

The undergraduate two-week cram will be of no help to a student in preparing for his law final. There is just too much review work to be done before the four-hour test gets underway. Then the student will get questions phrased in the case form, as in class. He will either13WESLEY A. STURGES took over the Yale Law School after World War ll at about the same time as Dean Griswold was promoted to his present post in Cambridge.