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HARVARD LAW REVIEW VOL. XXXU DECEMBER, 1918 NO. 2 ■ JENS IVERSON WESTENGARD T OVABLE and trustworthy, clean-thinking and clean-living, a -■— ' beautiful soul in a beautiful body; those are one's first thoughts about Jens Westengard. Then one remembers that here was a man equally at home and equally honored in a New England farmhouse, a Harvard faculty-room, and a Siamese palace; a man who held noble rank in an Oriental kingdom, who was received on friendly terms by an English queen, who was to have occupied a distinguished position in the most august assembly ever held on earth; yet as modest and unassuming, as simple-hearted and un- spoiled as when he earned his Hving as a stenographer in a Chicago office. The rapidly changing circumstances of his outward hfe, the sweet imclouded serenity of his soul, give to his life a touch of romance unusual in this prosaic age of science. Jens Iverson Westengard was born in Chicago, September 15, 187 1. His father was a Dane of an old family, who gave his son a good common-school education, but was unable to send him through college. The son made himself an expert stenographer; but it was his ambition to graduate from the Harvard Law School and become a lawyer. To that end he began to lay up money, and to fit himself to pass the admission examinations required from all who were not college graduates. He expected to be ready in 1896; but the faculty having decreed that no one without a college education should enter the school as a regular student after 1895, he cut his preparations short by a year. He came to Cambridge in the fall of 1895, with a little money, an adequate acquaintance with Blackstone's Com-