Yale University Law School - Yale Law Reporter Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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IIS TIIIC VALIC SIIINGLICQ on with some regular legal studies, every day, for an hour or two at least. And don't forget, as life goes on with all its oppo1'tunities for good and evil, that you are alumni of a great University, and in honor bound to do nothing to discredit her name. This has been a serious kind of valedictory. As we older men see troop after troop of you young fel- lows iiling off, every year, to spread over the country, with the power to act the part, either of ministers of justice, or of injustice, we follow your steps with hope, not untinged by anxiety. All cannot succeed, as the world counts success. Some will not deserve it. But for most of you of the three classes of 1894, we shall look for it, and with confident assurance that wc shall not look in vain. S1M1f:oN li. Iiaimwix. February 6, 1894. Q -jiwsy ...E , FK . . 'l Y 3- 'vi ,I l 3,:- Q

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Tllli YALIC SlIlNllI,l'l. II7 through weary hours at Moot Courts, where the arguments you heard were mainly useful as showing you what was to be avoided, when your turn came. You bought the cases, instead of borrowing one just long enough before the recitation to give time to read the head-note. You made study first, and ath- letics, or society, second. As I write I have in my mind not a few Seniors of this make and record, on whom the world will set its stamp of approbation. The world of action is impa- tient to welcome to its ranks just such young men. There are places waiting for them-not high at first, but sure to pave the way to something better. There are always enough men to fill the ranks of the pro- fession, but never enough to serve as commanders, and in nothing else is promotion surer to come to merit than in the practice of law. And as I bid good-bye to the average man, I know that he too, will before long bring his bark to anchor in some safe harbor. He is, after all, as good as the rest of the world, for the most part, and a little bet- ter, for good fortune or kind Providence has given him a particularly pleasant kind of work todo. Such a man will often find business come to him more quickly than it does to one more talented and who may be so ambitious of great things as to neglect small ones. To all of you I would say, Donlt be impatient of immediate distinction. If you deserve it, it will come in good time. Don't be discouraged at small beginnings. They are the appointed lot of almost every young professional man. Don't forget to keep

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MISCELLANEOUS. It is a subject of great regret that no one has ever taken the trouble to organize two teams of question- askers to settle in a fair trial the disputed right to championship. Last year much enthusiasm was excited by such a contest and one result at least was a wonderfully alliterative poem by an anonymous writer. We sincerely regret the necessity of being obliged to omit this attractive feature, when so much material was at hand-much more ample than any that could be found for any athletic team. Have the efforts of Cromer's philosophic mind been of no avail? Have the exertions of Adams, Denniston, Hall, Tyner and Fuller been in vain? Be this as it may, what was a settled fact in ,Q3 is an open controversy in '94. In the course of our lives, we have traveled a great deal, considered as a class, although some of us have revolved in rather circumscribed orbits. Ten men have travelled over a greater or less part of Europe, while many have been over a large part of the United States. Bonsall has travelled the most in longitude, from Mexico to Russia. while Moore. besides cross- ing the American Continent several times, has been from the Arctic Circle to the South Seas. Gouraud has crossed the Atlantic twelve times and calculates thirty-three as the proper number for the channel- once he went over and never came back. Smith has