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

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S4 'I'lll'I Y.-x1.i-1 SlllNl1l,l'Z. illustrating by his deeds the noble sentiments which he so glowingly expressed. We listened with admiration to the speeches of some of the seniors and felt greatly honored when wc were asked to act as ushers at the Prize Debate, although there were nearly as many ushers as there were spectators. Kent Club politics also gave us many chances to try our hands at pulling wires and rolling logs and afforded us a valuable introduction to future careers as Congressmen, Senators and Presi- dents. We were buttoned-holed and caressed by lobbyists who desired us to vote for this or that man, told of his estimable fitness for the office and favored us with glowing enconiums on his high qualities as a gentleman and a scholar. During the agitation over the adoption of the undergraduate rule in athletics we were held entranced by the earnest orations of Denny O'Neil on the iniquity of such a measure, made more effective by the wonderful facial gymnastics of the silver tongucd speaker. Denny's smile as he calmly answered not prepared in recitations was bland enough to make one wish that we might have it perpetuated in a plas- ter cast which would ornament the library and be a fitting companion piece to the cup so nobly won by the Law School team at Chicago. We were also favored by being able to listen to Professor Mark Bailey, of the Divinity School, in his admirable lectures on Elocution, a noble preliminary to our future course in Forensic Wind. Many times as we passed by the door of the reci- tation room, we heard the Seniors discussing

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THE YALE SHINGLE. 53 well remember our genial friend Messmore, beside a host of other worthies whose names we have now forgotten, but whose law suits we trust will remain in our memories, at least until after the bar examinations are over. The review which Professor Watrous gave us in Benjamin on Contracts helped to fix the elementary principles of the subject in our minds so that we were able to reconcile the startling discrepancies of Parsons in an intelligent manner. We had a little dash of Criminal Law with Pro- fessor Beers which proved especially valuable to those who frequented the Police Court. When the Supreme Court was in the Superior Court Room, many of our classmates walked in at the Bar Entrance and took the arm chairs as if they had been practicing for years. We had a few additional courses which were not in the curriculum, to wit: a special course in Potosoph- ical Research, under Professor Albert A. Moore and Assistant Professor Buttle, given whenever the spirits moved them to do so. Some few of us were for- tunate enough to be assisted in our attempts to appear like gentlemen, by a series of lectures on the I-Iabiliment of the Person, by the Honorable Pro- fessor Gouraud of London and New York. Most of us attended the wildly exciting political discussions of the Yale Kent Club, and never will we forget the stirring argument of Chief Justice Adams on the Tariff Question, emphasized as it was by the fact that he wore upon his breast a miniature box of the Sherman brand of American Tin Plates, thus

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'l'lll'1 YAl.l'l SIIINHLIC. S5 weighty questions of law before Chief Justice Beers, and wondered if we too, might sometime be able to appear in the Yale Moot Court, and present our knotty questions of law to that well known jurist. We were told by one of the Professors that we would gain much by occasionally dropping in at the Police Court, which suggestion was followed by some of our class. In fact, we almost wondered at times how these students of human nature and judicial proce- dure managed to find time to eat luncheon, so constant were they in their attendance at Judge Pickett's Court. The regular question in the morn- ing used to be, VVell, what's up in the City Court to-day? and whenever any well known Dago stabbed another Dago ora gentlemanly tramp hit a brother wanderer with a club, there were always several ,94 men on hand to sympathize with him and profit by his experience. Our hrst year in the Law School was indeed one of great beneht to us, laying the foundation for our future studies and convincing us that our system is vastly superior to any other method of studying our profession. We have made many strong friends among the members of our class, and gained much experience which will be of inestimable value to us in future work. ' jmviss E. Wirral-:1.14:1a.