Harvard Law School, which opened in 1817, was an ordinary Litchfield-type law school at first.
成立于1817年的哈佛法学院在创立之初是按照里奇菲尔德法律学院模式建立起来的一所普通的法律学校,
But at last it rose to prominence, which was attributable primarily to the appointment of Charles Eliot (1834-1906)
但它最后却成为法律院校中的泰山北斗,这主要归功于它在1869年任命查尔斯o艾略特(1834-1906)
as university president in 1869 and Christopher Columbus Landell (1826-1906) to the newly created post of law school dean in 1870.
担任校长职务和在1870年聘克里斯托弗o哥伦布o朗德尔(1826-1906)担任新设立的法学院院长。
Of the two men, Eliot was the more important, initiating and supporting reform throughout the university actively.
这两个人中,艾略特所起的作用更为重要,他积极倡导并支持对整个大学进行改革。
Landell's most significant innovation was the introduction of an instructional method utilizing Socratic Dialogue to discuss appellate court cases.
朗德尔平生最重要的创新则是引进了一种教学方法,这种方法使用苏格拉底式的对话来讨论上诉法院判决的案例。