Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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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

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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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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Where by theory and practical instruction students are prepared to take a place in the profitable marts of commerce and trade. ■ The Rtr. Gerard Smith, S.J.. AM., who wa i named rr-gmi of the Mar-quettt College of Hu imen Ad mint tution at iht begin-mig of tbt fall term. Father Smith ii alio in astotiaie profeiwr of pblloiO- Phi • The Robert A. Johnston G llegc of Business Administration, a member of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business, offers a four year undergraduate course leading to a professional degree of bachelor of science or bachelor of philosophy in business administration. The College also conducts an evening division which provides an opportunity for teachers, graduate students, high school graduates, and special students who arc unable to attend the day school to acquire training for business leadership. The courses presented in the evening division make it possible for the ambitious and capable students to supplement their practical ■ Student congregate on iht itdeualk btforr fohnrton Hall for a cigarette anJ a bantering wend hefott thin. experiences, remedy the defects of their training, and broaden their education in general. ■ For twenty-three years the College of Business Administration has supplied scientific business training to business executives and prospective executives. At the present time, under Dean J. Freeman Pyle and his competent staff it continues to carry forward this work, so striving to train its students that they may go forth into the field of business to act as leaders; striving to instill in its graduates those qualities of leadership which will enable them not only to follow the precepts and ethics of the profession as already established, but to courageously endeavor to raise the standards and practices of their field through the intelligent application of the knowledge they have acquired and the use of scientific research. To attain this aim of leadership, the College presents not only a complete training in the fields of marketing, accounting, statistics, banking and finance, personnel administration, real estate, and commercial teaching, but supplc- ■ Educatori rtonomiiti and huunen exttnlirti tompoir iht fatuity of tht Collet of Bniintn AJminnlration. Then leachingi arr augmented by the lettnrei of men and women prominent in the eommeree and trade of Milwaukee.