Homegrown

Three weeks ago, when the University of Pennsylvania picked Harold Stassen as its new president, another announcement was lost in the shuffle. Simultaneously, Pennsylvania reported the resignation of its popular law school dean, Earl G. Harrison, who had been in line for the university's top job, and some of his friends guessed that Dean Harrison quit because Stassen got the job he wanted.

Last week, the university filled Harrison's place with a second public figure--former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, 73. He had graduated from the Pennsylvania law school summa cum laude in 1898, taught on its faculty until 1918, won fame as a prosecutor during the Teapot Dome scandals. On Hoover's Supreme Court, he had found himself a liberal dissenter; on Roosevelt's, the most outspoken of the conservatives. Since retirement, he has spent much of his time plugging for Clarence Streit's world federation. A genial, scholarly man, who relaxes by reading Greek and Latin, he is a lifetime trustee of the university. His fellow trustees, seeking "the best man available," found him in their own midst, cleared his appointment with Stassen. Said Justice Roberts: "The prospect of working with Stassen is a pleasant one."

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