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Ben Stein's Diary
We’ve Lost a Great Teacher
Harry Wellington was one of life’s great gentlemen and one of the Yale Law School’s greatest professors.
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Yes, I know he was a stellar scholar and administrator at Yale and at New York Law School.
Still, I saw him as teacher: getting his students to think and reason and write with his love of them and of the law, and not fear of the lash of sarcasm. That was new forty years or more ago, and he was a pioneer in the kindly — and vastly more effective — teaching of law.
Not long ago, when I wrote a column for the New York Times, Harry Wellington sent me fan mail about something I had written. It brought tears to my eyes that he remembered me and was still so full of kindness and regard, just as it brings tears to my eyes to think that he is no longer with us. He was a superb teacher and a great friend to his students and to the law, and a shining, dashingly handsome example of Yale Law School at its best — which is awfully good. We who knew him and had him teach us were blessed. To have him as both friend and teacher was to be doubly blessed. His loss is terrible.
About the Author
Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.
Don Michelinie| 10.24.11 @ 10:10AM
Harry is not gone Ben. You became the things you admired in him. So it is with great teachers.
Vern Crisler| 10.24.11 @ 11:16AM
This reminds me of Hayek's tribute to Professor Canaan at the London School of Economics. I just hope somebody says nice things about me when I die. Not likely, although the birds in my neighborhood might nod solemnly and wisely at my passing.
beebop2| 10.24.11 @ 6:14PM
There are so many lies in this piece that I am gagging. Apparently Ben has decided that the divorce from Alexandra never occurred. He is so full of himself that he is nearly two people.
PCC| 10.24.11 @ 10:56PM
Well, it is a fine tribute to a departed teacher and friend.
On the other hand, if I never hear or read another word about how wonderful everybody and everything is at Yale and Harvard, it'll be too soon.
Bsg| 10.27.11 @ 4:41PM
Sounds like the original Zen Master beating out Phil Jackson by a few decades.
Occam's Tool| 10.31.11 @ 11:15AM
Still and all, he was a lawyer.
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