Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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SCHOOL OF LAW Where through court procedure and case knowledge students are trained in the method of upholding the rights of citizens. ■ In moot court. Liu■ iludenli learn court eurtom ji util at the pleading of caret anJ the examination of u unmet. ■ Organized back in 1908, the Marquette University Law school, which flaunts its facade to Wisconsin avenue on the northwest corner of its junction with Eleventh street, is a member of the Association of American Law Schools, and, too, one of the collegiate schools approved by the American Bar association. In building and equipment, teaching facilities, and competence of instruction, it ranks among the foremost professional schools of its kind in the country. Many of its graduates arc included among the Milwaukee county court judges; and it is thus seen that the School has produced, and will produce, material of legal worth. Its faculty, besides including the usual resident full-time professors, also utilizes the services of not a few of Milwaukee's ablest and most successful lawyers. Consequently, these men, in their teaching, have the peculiar advantages of presenting to their students a teaching ability, salted by practical success and by training and instruction in acceptable law institutions throughout the United States. Both empirical and theoretical knowledge, indispensable for the well-rounded teacher, are emphasized. Law, at Marquette University, is taught by what is known as the case method. By the study, comparison and discussion of selected, pertinent court records, the principles of law arc developed, individually and for the class, and their practical application indicated. In this manner, legal analysis and habits of accurate reasoning are fostered. All the decisions of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the statutory enactments of the Wisconsin legislature are used as material for this 'case method of instruction; and the students gam a knowledge and insight into the law as it is now functioning in Wisconsin. For a number of years, a regular practice court has been in use, enabling the students to participate in the experiences of actual prosecution or defense procedure. There the undergraduate lawyers examine and cross-examine, raise objections, plead before juries, and finally submit to His Honor's decisions just as they would were they in the Court House four blocks away. In moot court they exercise the application of their classroom principles. Not only the Court House, however, is within comfortable vicinity The Government building, in which the Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin sits, and the Safety building, housing the Municipal ■ Clifton Williamt, LL.B., Jean of the Mari ueiie School of Lau. and the Ret . Hugh B. Mac Mahon, S.I., regent of the intlilulion, n ho guide the undergraduate Jeitiuiei of potential harriiten. Paci 16

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■ The Kei Anthony F. Bereni. S. ., regent of tbt School of Medicine, who m addition to hit dnttei to that inititntwn i1 an ai-loeute profenor of Religion and Phil• otophy. ■ Under the itrfet tnterrision of icientiih. the mtsiic.il undent i tudy slides ill n trot mg inflamed and tnfecliout hod) hsue I. ■ The laborjjof) faeililiei in the n t u Medical building ghe promise of important research, for all the efficient apparali of modern medical tcience are mailable to linden 11 and faculty on the rcond and third floor of the ilrnctnre. state medical associations, University alumni, contributors to the endowment fund, and medical teachers of the entire country were present. Guest speakers for the occasion included: the Rev. William M. Magee. S.J., president of the University; the Honorable Daniel W. Hoan, mayor of Milwaukee; the Honorable Albert G. Schmedeman, Governor of Wisconsin; Dr. William Gerry Morgan, dean of the Georgetown University School of Medicine; Dr. Bernard Evcringham Scammon, dean of Medical Science school, University of Minnesota School of Medicine; and His Excellency, the Rt. Rev. Samuel A. Stritch, archbishop of the Milwaukee archdiocese. • ■ The School of Medicine was organized just twenty years ago by Dr. Louis F. Jcrmain. who was named dean. That same year, 1913, Marquette University acquired the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons, which included the Dental school, the Milwaukee Medical college and Trinity hospital. Among the outstanding features of the School of Medicine is the guiding criterion method of evaluating students. By this scheme not merely grades alone but a consideration of the student’s individual make-up determines his status. Eight examining boards, representing every branch of the work offered in the field of medicine, weigh evidence and make recommendation on all doubtful cases. The last board provides for an exhaustive test of the student at the end of the four years work, to determine the student’s qualifications for undertaking the responsibilities of medicine and for keeping abreast of medical progress. The student is also permitted, under the subject system which in principle is in use at the School, to take only a portion of those courses which usually make up a year's curriculum. This not only aids the sound but slow student in gaining complete mastery of the subjects but also lessens the burden on the shoulders of those undergraduates who arc working their way through the University. Facilities for continued research have been made available. Class presidents for the year were: Theodore D. Elbe, Shawano, Wis., freshman; Louis H. Guelbmer, Milwaukee, sophomore; Mark E. Harmeyer, Milwaukee, junior; and Walter H. Gebert, Merrill, Wis., senior. i $ Pa OR

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and District courts of Milwaukee county, are within a short walking distance. ■ A quarterly publication, the Marquette Law Review, should also be numbered among the consequential activities of the Law school. Although its primary purpose is to bind a tighter knot between alumni and the undergraduates, this magazine aims to serve the members of the bar by the publication of timely articles of inter est to those who profess the legal faith. The Review this last year was edited by Robert Hansen, and Richard F. Mooney. The administrative officers of the School include the Rev. Hugh B. MacMahon, S.J., A.M.. Regent of the School; Clifton Williams, LL.B.. Dean; Willis E. Lang, Litt.B., L.L.B., Secretary of the Law Faculty. The Marquette law library, situated on the third floor of the west wing of the Law building is the largest library in Milwaukee although its ■ Lor II 'till out of ibt mo ft popular four in amoog tht malt 11»Jruti of lbt Umirenily, un rrtbtlttl eafb Jtar totJi moll m ibt St bool. shelves are but half tilled. It has a capacity of 50,000 volumes and now contains the English State Trials, Common Law reports, English reports, the reports of the Supreme Court of the United States, and of inferior Federal Courts, reports of most of the states, the complete National Reporter System together with statutes and digests of various states, general digests and sets of the leading and annotated cases. The library was centralized and made available to students when the School was erected in 1924. During the past year the library received donations of books from Attorneys Duane Mowry, Harvey L. Ncclcn and Lubin A. Pelkey. William Mariner and William Tibbs in the past have been the largest donors to the library. Gerald Flynn, a senior law student was in charge of the library during the past scholastic year, as head librarian, assisted by Gerard Paradowski, a junior. The library reading room, Grim-mclsman Memorial Hall, patterned after the more famous English legal halls, was built through a donation of Mrs. Harriet L. Cramer in 1924. It is named in honor of the Rev. James Grimmelsman, S.J., first regent of the Marquette School of Law. Class presidents for the year were: Rudolph A. Schoenecker, senior; Frank J. Antoine, Jr., junior, and Joseph Raymond McCarthy, freshman. Pack 17