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

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'l'II1'I YALIQ' SIIINGLIC. 57 the absence of the missing ones, we form the acquaint- ance of the new members of this class, and find them all agreeable fellows. During the vacation the Faculty has made one or two important changes. Now the desk is at the exit end of the big recitation room, and the benches are reversed. Not only does this arrangement save the Professors many steps, but it also seems to materially lessen the number of pressing engagements outside immediately after roll-call. Our class being an especially capable one, the Fac- ulty decide to favor us with additional work. Hence the honor system. We appreciate this compliment to our ability--following classes, look upon us, your benefactors-and thank our worthy Dean and Pro- fessors for it. Our studies this year are exceedingly interesting. Under the able direction of Professor Baldwin we are becoming familiar with the intricacies of Corporations and Trusts, and also the workings of the Constitu- tion of the United States. Professor Robinson guides us with steady hand through Real Property, Forensic Oratory, and Medi- cal Jurisprudenee. Later with him we become very much interested in Conveyancing, and, what is thor- oughly enjoyed by all, a practical Moot Court. For a brief time we enjoy the presence of Professor Townsend in recitations on 'l'rademarks, Copyrights. and Patents. We regret not being able to have this popular instructor in more of our work. Meanwhile Pepper has given way to Maxwell and Professor Beers in the realm of Pleading. Notes

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SENIOR YEAR. We are Seniors. But a few months more and we will bid farewell to our learned inst1'uctors and to those old familiar recitation rooms perched upon the third floor of the New Haven County Court House. Many and varied have been our experiences as Juniors in the Yale Law School, and now we are setting out on the second and final year of our legal course. We have had three long months of restful base ball, rowing, and inspiring, or rather perspiring, dancing, and return, greatly refreshed, all eager to assume the role of dignihed Seniors. With appropriate reserve we move about the halls and recitation rooms, gazing in quiet contempt at those unfortunate new arrivals-commonly termed Juniors-who know not as yet that a four year old child cannot enter into a contract to build a railroad, or that, in the eyes of the law, an insane person is mm mmjrox 7lZL'7ZfZ'S. We for- get, as all Senior classes before us have forgotten, that but one brief year has elapsed since we ourselves were untutored Juniors. As we finally get settled down to work we notice that several former members of the class are no longer with us, and in their places appear new faces and forms. We miss the stalwart figure of Big Denny especially. Rumor has it that he has gone to Georgetown, and too, it is said you can get bigger schooners for a nickel down there than at any place around these parts. But becoming accustomed to

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58 'l'lIl'l YAl.liI SlIlNGl,li. and Bills go smoothly with Professor Perry, and Evi- dence is profitably reviewed through the lectures of Judge Fenn. We Hnish Professor Woolscy's inter- esting work in International Law, and then begin a fine series of lectures on Equity under Professor Phelps. This gentleman is endearing himself to all, and his clear, practical talks make the subject easily and thoroughly understood by every one. We now reach the middle of the winter term, when this goes to print. What studies are yet to come we cannot foretell. Suffice it to say that what- ever the subject assigned, its principles are sure to be eagerly absorbed and stowed away in our capacious legal brains. Next to studies, as a class, we shine most brilliantly in athletics. As Juniors we had six men on the great Yale Law School Base Ball Nine QLimitedj, as Seniors we must need have a football team. So we selected a manager-he was the best shot with a gun in the two classes-collected subscriptions, and organ- ized for the onslaught. Well, we played three games, and only lost two of them. It was not quite as fine a record as that of the ball team, but then we might have lost all three-the other game resulted 6 to 6. Under the head of athletics we ought to mention the fact that we have in our class the captain of the fencing-squad, a long distance runner, two sprinters fboth from New Londonj, a chess player, the editors of the Law Journal, aud a stenographer-the rest of the class obtain physical exercise either by playing poker or carrying their notes on evidence to and from the lectures.