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 figureĀformer 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...