Henry Drinker

He had three brothers: Jim; Cecil, the founder of the Harvard School of Public Health; and Philip, inventor of the iron lung; and two sisters, Catherine and Ernesta.

[5] Auerbach quotes Drinker as having referred, in remarks at a 1929 ABA committee meeting addressing standards for Bar admission, to "Russian Jew boys" who came "up out of the gutter" as the subject of a disproportionate number of ethical complaints against lawyers.

[6] A solution to the problem of immigrant lawyers who had not absorbed the professional norms of the American legal profession, Drinker argued, would be to require at least two years of college before admission to the Bar.

[2] Though he was a successful lawyer, Drinker spent his spare time playing music, a passionate hobby that was as important to him as his real profession.

In 1928, the Drinkers built a new house that contained a large music room where they regularly organized singing evenings, and sometimes they used the premises of the American Musicological Society for their gatherings.

During World War II, Drinker intervened on behalf of the von Trapp family when they were detained at Ellis Island by visa problems.