National University - Docket Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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JOHN L. CASSIN Assistant Dean of the Law School Secretary of the Board of Trustees HP IDISPP OIOP

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I n observing the careers of the successful lawyers of the Bar of this District, I have become convinced that the primary reason therefor is “industry.” Thorough study and training are the preliminaries; constant application and sincere effort, the necessary elements toward the desired end. It follows, therefore, that hard work is the corollary to scholastic attainment. Pecuniary gain is the lawful reward, but public recognition and acclaim also the goal each should strive to attain. John L. Cassin

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National Oniucrsitu ioistoru -|r v ational University tliis year completes its seventy-first year as a graduate J[ institution of learning. It was incorporated by an Act of Congress in June 1869, and from that year when Dr. William B. Wedgewood, its founder, and his associates made it possible to obtain a higher education of professional standing, to this day, National University has forged steadily forward to become one of the country’s leading educational institutions in the professional field. Five presidents of the United States, Grant, Garfield, Hayes, Arthur and Cleveland have acted as Chancellor ex-officio of the University as an indicia of the caliber of the men who directed the affairs in its formative years. Although instruction was first given in several professional fields, including a department of medicine, the tendency as the years passed was toward the law, and so it is to-day. Law constitutes the predominant branch of the University, but it should not be overlooked that the school of Economics and Government, conferring the degrees of A.B., B.S., B.C.S. and M.C.S. is also a vital factor in the academic branch. Because of its rapid growtli and changing conditions it was found necessary to reorganize the University in 1896. A new charter was granted by a special Act of Congress, (129 Stat. L. 194), conferring the power to grant university degrees. The new incorporators were all men holding high and honored positions in the Federal Judicial service. At the death of President Cleveland the Board of Regents abolished the office of Chancellor ex-officio and elected Arthur McArthur, then a justice on the District of Columbia Supreme Court bench as the first chancellor, and succeeding chancellors in the order of their service have been Samuel F. Miller, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Richard H. Alvey, Chief Justice of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Eugene Carusi, LLD., Hayden Johnson, LED., Charles S. Hatfield, LLD., Justice of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, and the present chancellor is Leslie C. Garnett, LLM., formerly an As- sistant Attorney General of the United States and United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Dr. Charles Pergler, a former Minister to Japan from Czechoslovakia is the Dean of the Law School. The School of Law is one of the largest in the United States, having an enrollment of over thirteen hundred students from every state in the Union and many foreign countries whose pre-legal education was received in colleges and uni- versities throughout the country. National University stands a monument to the unselfish devotion of those who have guided its destinies through seventy-one years and made it possible for ambitious students of moderate means to achieve a professional education of the highest standard. i rxi ir i3 3i 5ior