The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-07

tCrvieW Florida candidates Tor
scholarships offered by the New
Ucan Russell D. Niles announced
hcle on Wednesday.
Trc scholarships, named for
{. aduatcs of the school, Elihu
i,oot and Samuel j. Tilden, will
be offered each year to enable
Wcnty young men. who show
promise of becoming "outstand-
ing lawyers in the grand Ameri-
can tradition" to attend the Law
School.
Candidates chosen from Florida
will bc interviewed by a commit
tee for the Fifth Federal Circuit
consisting of Chief Justice Joseph
Z. .itilcncSon, Jr.; John r. Parten,
Federal Reserve Bank chairman
and w. " Houston, president Of
Rice Institute. all of Houston,
Tex 4fkz ~
Under the plan devised by the
Dean Emeritus Of the School :of
Law. Honorable Arthur T. Van
dcrbllt. now Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of New jersey,
the candidates fpr the new
scholarships will be nominated
by colnmlttce in each state, with
final selections to be made by a
regional committee in zach of the
ten Federal judicial Circuits,
Dean Miles explained.
Candidates viii klrete for
the scholarships" Dean Niles ex-
the candidates must have good
academic records, they must, in
addition, exhibit qualities Of
character and personality which
will lcnable them to become hon.
orable and effective members of
the profession in the broadcast
sense OF the term"
Since twenty scholarships will
be awarded eachgs year. and the
law. school curriculum covers a
three-year period. tits expected
that by l953-1954 essyssixty
scholars enrolled will mark the
greatest Concentration "a lf9nss
governmental 1 subsidized 1sstu-
dents in any school of law or
government IN the country. =
When the successful candidates
enroll in the School of Law, they
will be among the first students
to use the beautiful new Law
Center building now nsssi4s COM
pletion on historic Washington
Sc "~n noan Niles nointed out.
THE ot-Tilden Scholars" he
saiu, Wln be- gwen personal con-.
facts with outstanding leaders in
the fields of industry. finance,
law. and public service SO that
they will be reminded of the fact
that they are being prepared not
only for personal success but also
for unSelfish leadership in the
area of the United States from
which they come.
"Since the object of the schol-
arships is to train lawyers who
are qualified for public leader
ship, it will be necessary to re-
view the educational background
of each scholar and to have each
one make up any deficiencies in
his general education by taking
reading courses, especially in
history, the humanities and the
social sciences, under the guild
ance of tutors chosen from lead
ers among the university facul-
ties"
The Root-Tilden scholarship
program is one of many projects
that will make the New York
Univer ity Law Center. when it
opens next fall, a focal point for
the study and solution of vexing
problems of law and its admin
istration. Through publications,
seminars, institutes and confer
ences on various phases of the
law, an effort will be made to
integratc the law into the chang
ing social pattern.
The Root-Tilden scholars will
have opportunities of working on
a comprehensive publication pro-
gram, including the New York
University Law Review and the
Tax Law Review, the most wide
ly read law school publication in