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A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/Benjamin Robbins Curtis was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 18:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was working on improving the writing, but I could not decide whether you meant "legally trained" or "legally degreed" in the introduction. They mean different things, right? Awadewit (talk) 14:29, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually both. Went to law school (Harvard Law School was brand new, and he got a law degree. If you google Joseph Story and Rufus Hooker Ashmun you'll find Story's eulogy of the latter, and it will give you a concept of how new this all was. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 14:44, 2 April 2010 (UTC) Stan[reply]

As I was copyediting, I was unsure of the need for the following sentence: The same year he briefly returned to Cambridge where he took another course on law. - Could you provide more information that would give context for this? Awadewit (talk) 14:40, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Post graduate work, I think. Take a look at the NY Times piece. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 14:44, 2 April 2010 (UTC) Stan[reply]