ABSTRACT
Being of a skeptical cast of mind, I at first declined the editors’ invitation to contribute to this issue commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Harvard Law Review. That the Review is 100 years old has no significance. Even the fact that I live in a house that is eighty-two years old has greater significance: it has implications for problems of maintenance and repair, and it tells one something about the architectural and structural features of the house. But as a journal has no natural life span, the fact that it is 100 years old should interest only people who have a superstitious veneration for round numbers. The reason the Harvard Law Review is 100 years old is that it was started 100 years ago; the law reviews of all the major law schools are still being published, and if they had been started 100 years ago they too would be 100 years old.
