Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-30

man who has recently been
N made full professor az the
yGS=s=S Harvard College Of Law. might
lk7SffJI almost be called a freak; in
- deed, he very likely would be
VIZ, Meio II not FOR the fact that he Is a genius
round did not take a course in law
harvard or at any school He started at
-. osNa' and studied for a time at Har-
80 put returned before nc has finished
car 10 enter the office Of his father
i1iLcolh' where he was admitted to the
- hut IL must not be inferred from
tiiis that Prof. Pound is not a learned man
and does not hold anv COLLEGE 1o,,ree. ~
was graduated from the University Of Ne
Diaska with the degree Of Bachelor %
~ Us at is years OF age; another year savv
MN labelled Master Of Arts and In an
other year he had won his doctors degree
Dul ne was then botanlst; his studies OF
pant lie gave him fame beyond his uni
N'Isily' and Prof Bessey. under whom,
Irol' Pound studied. says the world lost a
eieat uotanlst when IT grained a great law
s'uuenL After having won honor by his
Ltstarches and writings in the botanical
lIeIo' Prof. Pound determined to take nm
the law. He began his studies al Ne
praska, then went to Harvard. but returned
perore he had finished the course 10 taks
up active work IN the office I'm which hts
rather was n partner Here he was ad-
united TO the bar. and practiced for soma
ume' then he began practice alone and
was building up a good practice when ne
was called TO the supreme court commits
sloh. From this his way was cleared N
tea'hlhS, and he became dean of the Ma
~ ~ aSNa law school at the University OF
-, iaSNa' thence to Evanston, thence to
nd
only professor in the Harvard College Of
Id" VINO does not hold a Harvard degree.
no was born October q, 1870, in Lincoln.
80 'he son OF Mr. and Mrs. Stephen 3.
roma His father was a successful law
yer IN that place, and his mother a
scholarly woman. made 1t her chief ,vork
TO rear son Of genius. Hereditv and care
Iul training made this possible, Roscoe
round had rare preparation for the big
ne that was before him. Unlike the ordi-
nary western boy, he never attended the
pubic school For that matter he never
ATTENDED any school, but that of his
Holher chamber until he entered the
university at the age of II years His
mother was his only teacher up 70 that
tlhe' AT a very early age he learned his
letters and before the usual tot is in the
kindergarten Roscoe Pound was readjns
the primer at his mothers chair. He did
not mingle with the boys Of the town TIe
was a mothers boy, but he was not a
naoy' lie was rapidly maturing and learn.
ing under her careful direction.
It was his mothers influence which came
very near diverting him from the study and
practice OF the law. Mrs. Pound was
scholar. She was an investigator. Besides
being versed in the simpler branches OF
learning this gifted mother taught him the
way to the higher mathematics and at heI
knee when a child of tender years, Roscoe
drew inspiration from Homer and other
Greek and Latin writer's thus grounding
himself early for a study of the modern
tongues. He soon studied the modern
languages. becoming proficient in the
German, French, Spanish and Italian
Mrs. Pound was lover of flowers She
was a botanist, and 1t was here that the
boy became interested in subject which
might have made him a great botanis
rather than a great lawyer and teacher
Mr. Pound was engaged during his early
boyhood in collecting systematically the
western flora, that is, the flora of the
plains for Prof. Aso Gray, who was Their
making up the great classification after
ward appearing in Gray's Manual Of
Botany. The mothers zeal in this worl
was also felt by the boy, and for a Ions