University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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Two have severed this happy balsamic bond, one to enter a different sphere, and the other to pursue his chosen duties in a different portion of this wide, wide world. The latter, a devotee of the manly game, graced the University gridiron, accomplishing the difficult task of “making the team, and followed its fortunes during the entire season. The first of commendable bonbommit, remembering a couplet universally known and remembered, i. t., “There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune,” grasped the opportunity of advancing himself in the great whirl of business life and shed the legal crust that had begun to overspread his blithesome features, bidding Hlackstone a fond adieu. Thus time has voyaged its rosy way. filled for the nonce with hope and again with despair, while the ever riding cavalier, the Present, with his keenest of sabres, stern reality, cuts away the weaklings of our speculative minds. To the lawyer, in his capacity of student of law. this cavalier of checkered history is the sculptor of a laudable ambition as he traces on the adamantine corner-stone of his legal knowledge, Butler's words, “With books and (money) placed for show Like nest-eggs to make clients lay. And for his false opinion pay. Historian. a

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This class passed from the denture old Ivy building, carrying with them the impress of a distinct epoch that of advancement. Another summer's dust settled upon the lawyer's sanctum sanctorum to mark another year and cherish the memories of '95. Everything was joyous and resplendent, presaging the climax of '96. « « « the Present. « « Many events have transpired that might, with strict propriety, be embodied in this pseudonymous history of the Law Class, but with an ordinary appreciation of the extent of human endurance, we shall confine ourselves to the observation of a few of the radicalitics. It is worthy of note that the Empire State. inculcating the excellent motto Excelsior, has thereby lost some of her sons. One of them, amending Horace Greeley’s exhortation to read Go South, etc.,” came South-and still clinging to his native motto higher, found himself very soon thereafter at the University of Georgia, a studtHt of law. Every clime has paid its tribute and bowed before undoubted efficiency. From the niveous hills of the north and the piping plains of the southwest; from the land of the lasso, mustang and puncher, ’ and the Hats of the Peninsula State; from the home of the Montc .umas and Malinchl, of the manga and scrape, from all these our numbers have come, while to old Georgia remains the honor of swelling the ranks to that distinguished proportion, which by demonstrating the cardinal object of its existence, i. c.. success, bestows unprecedented credit on the Law Department. The corn patch and stenographer's desk are deprived of wonted patronizers. Agrestic habits and tastes stride hand in hand with the urban element, towards the common goal. Singleness of ambition and mutuality of woes and blessings cementing the tender bonds of good-will, among the gentlemen of the long robe, stamped every official act of the Class of Ninety-Six with the unmistakable badge of blandncss and unity. This admirable spirit became one absorbing passion anti being evinced on every occasion and under varying circumstances: for example, the stout and stormy career of the Moot Parliament, where having entered into the entanglement and depths of parliamentary law with a zeal worthy of more inspired fanatics, the lawyers soon found it prosaic, and during the flippant discussion of a motion to adjourn to a definite time, the fiddle and de bo gave out, the former charm fell flat, and they adjourned in a summary manner. 22

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 University of Georgia. ■ Caw Department-Calendar, i$96-97. Sept. 16, Wednesday, Autumn Term begins. Matriculation. 17. Thursday, Lectures on Constitution of United States begin. Blackstone, Book I. taken up by class. Oct. 1, Thursday, Examination on Constitution of United States. “ 2, Friday, Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence begin. “ 5. Monday, Clark on Contracts »aken up. •• to, Saturday, Examination on Blackstone, Book I. “ 12. Monday, Blackstone, Book II, taken up. Nov. 14. Wednesday, Examination on Blackstone, Book II. •' 15, Thursday, Fishback’s Elementary Law- taken up. “ 18. Wednesday. Examination on Contracts. 19. Thursday, Cooley's Elements of Torts taken up. 26. Thursday, National Thanksgiving Day. Dee. 14, Monday, Criminal Law and Code, I’art IV, taken up. • 19. Saturday. Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence suspended. 22. Tuesday, Examination on Elementary I-aw. •' 23, Wednesday. Examination on Torts. “ 24, Thursday, Christmas recess begins. Jan. 2, Saturday, Spring Term begins. Grcenlcaf on Evidence taken up. Fetter on Equity taken up. 15, Friday, Lectures on Parliamentary I-aw begin S4 Ian. 19. Tuesday. Birthday of R. K. Lee. Holiday. Feb. 1, Monday, Moot Parliament organized. “ 15, Monday, Examination on Evidence. • l6, Tuesday, Parliamentary Law concluded. Statute Law. Code of Georgia. Part II. taken up. 19, Friday. Anniversary of Demosthenian Society. 22. Monday, Anniversary of Phi Kappa Society. March 1, Monday. Examination on Equity. “ 2. Tuesday, Shipman’s Common Law Plead- ing taken up. 3, Wednesday, Lectures on Medical Juris-prudence resumed. April 15. Thursday. Medical Jurisprudence concluded. 16, Friday, Examination on Statute I-aw. “ 19, Monday, Lectures on Constitution of Georgia begin. Governmental Code, Part I, taken up. May l, Saturday. Examination on Pleading. “ 3, Monday, Moot Court organized. June 10, Thursday, Examination on Govermenta! Code. •• 11, Friday, Examination on Constitution of Georgia. •• 16. Wednesday, Commencement Day, Degrees conferred. N. B. The Code of Practice. Part III, is taken up in detail after Evidence and Pleading.