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

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22 'l'lIl'I YAIJC SIIINGLE. conscience is the rule, und where falsehood and not truth is the means by which to gain his ends, then he has forfeited ull right to be an officer in any court of justice or to be numbered among the members of an honorable profession. May you all be a credit to that profession, an honor to the class of '94 and to the Yule Law School. IQIJWARIP G. l5UeK1.ANn. X liii W4 Jr, ,. li1viZ ' w 'iri R .-:Q if

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'l'lll'I YAI.l'l SlllNKll.l'1. 21 pushed the book over to me, whispering, Don't object to that question, there is the statute which covers it and makes it admissible. A less noble soul would have waited till I had stated my objection and then annihilated My young friend, whose ignor- ance of the statutes is only equalled by his ignorance of the law in general. So I say, keep your practice up to a high stone, it is the noblest in the world. Let me tell you what Chief Justice Andrews says of it: It is not enough for an attorney that he be hon- est. He must be that and more. He must be believed to be honest. It is absolutely essential to the usefulness of an attorney that he be entitled to the confidence of the community wherein he practices. If he so conducts in his profession that he does not deserve that confidence, he is no longer an aid to the court nor a safe guide to his clients. A lawyer needs, indeed, to be learned. It would be well if he could be learned in all the learning of the schools. There is nothing to which the wit of man has been turned that may not become the subject of his inqui- ries. Then, of course, he must be specially skilled in the books and the rules of his own profession and he must have prudence and tact to use his learning, and foresight, and industry. and courage. But all these may exist in a moderate degree and yet he may be a creditable and useful member of the profession, so long as the practice is to him a clean and honest func- tion. But possessing all these great faculties, if once the practice becomes to him a mere 'brawl for hire, or a system of legalized plunder where craft and not

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THE CLASS OF 1394. W11.1.1AM ROIJERICIQ AD1xMs came into this world at Bloomfield, Conn., December 24, 1873. His father, William R. Adams, a scientific tobacco raiser, has held all the important town offices in the place of our subject's nativity. On both sides he traces English blood for ten generations. In a catalogue which he has made from the genealogical tree of his family are the two Presidents of the name of Adams, a bank president, and a jailer of Hartford, on his fath- er's side, Chief Justice Waite and the Mayor of South Norwalk, on his mother's side. He attended the Hartford High School before coming to the Law School. FREDERICK L,xw1'oN AvER11,1, was born at Branford, Conn., July 15, 1865, since residing there and in New Haven. His father, George W. Averill, formerly captain of a coasting vessel, was afterwards an oyster- grower and dealer. He has never investigated his lineage, but knows his blood is chiefiy English, with an infusion of Irish. ALFRED CAR1,1aToN BALDWIN was born at Beacon Falls, Conn., December 15, 1872. His father, Herbert C. Baldwin, is a farmer, and has held many town ofhces as well as a place in the House of Representatives of Connecticut. His blood is English, traceable to the