The praise coming from Harvard Law School colleagues of Dean Elena Kagan, who was named this week to be the next solicitor general, is effusive — and, it turns out, longstanding.

In a folder in Box 571 of the Thurgood Marshall papers at the Library of Congress, one can find Kagan’s 1986 application to be Marshall’s law clerk, along with recommendations from five Harvard Law professors — no one else — as well as her resume and even her law school transcript. That transcript indicates, interestingly, that Kagan got something of a slow start at the law school, with no A’s in her first semester 1L courses.

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