“PERFECT ROTTER!”
•lose Paciano Laurel, president of the Tokio-made “Independent” Philippine Republic, was recalled here today by one of his former American professors as a man who had no scruples about grabbing what did not belong to him. Back in 1920. Professor Ernest G. Lorenzen said, Laurel completed a year of graduate work at Yale University which entitled him to the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence. “By error,” the professor related, “he received the Doctor of Civil Law Degree one of 1 2 rarest and highest honours conferred, instead of the JD which he had earned. And do you know the fellow wouldn’t give it back! I understand he took it down to the Philippines with him and hung it up in his office. We didn’t get that degree back for a couple of years. I believe.” Another of Laurel’s former teachers, Professor Emeritus Arthur L. Corbin, wasted few words in sizing up his one-time student. Said the professor: “He was a perfect rotter in law school.”—(New Haven, Connecticut, correspondent of United Press.)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 10 January 1944, Page 1
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