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

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78 TIIIC YALE Sl-IINGLIC. engaged, replied, Everything but horse-shoeingf' Unfortunately it is quite impossible to carry out completely the comparison for no one important question of the day has been slighted. There is no doubt, moreover, but that we have improved even on Congressional methods, for did not Fuller say in iifteen minutes what a certain Sena- tor required as many hours to say? Without tear of contradiction may it be said that Levy has raised more points ol order than any other man in the whole history of the Kent Club. Even that is putting it mildly and the complete idea would be, Levy is l:l1'St,lfl1C rest nowhere. It has been really pathetic to see how zealously he has guarded our interests in this respect and his I-Ierculean form recalling by the up-lifted right arm an auction-bidder will ever live in memory. Though, ot late, strange and sorrowful to tell, he has left us despairing of our ability to learn nevertheless we may prophecy that il any future member of the Kent Club dares to violate the sacred rules of Parliamentary Law, Levy will rise --if need be, from the grave-to a point of order. To mention any other parliamentarian in the class would be too severe an anti-climax. The Moot Congress held on December II, 1893, was a howling success. Nothing more need be said on this point except that special stress is to be placed on the epithet and that only the writer's limited vocabulary secured such easy treatment. In further explanation of this brief treatment of that highly important session, it may be stated that the writer was for one long hour the'target at which XVC1'C aimed

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THE KENT CLUB. To remove all possible misapprehension, let us acknowledge that the glory of Cicero and Demos- thenes is not likely to be diminished by any efforts of ours. If, in any sense of the words, we may Hatter ourselves with the title of oratorical meteors, it must be in the suddenness of the collapse after a lofty liight. Yet to follow the well-patronizcd road of mediocrity is no disgrace. Much of our talent, how- ever, has successfully concealed itself from the unpitying, yes, almost insolent, stare of the Kent Club, as is evidenced by such outbursts of eloqucuce as were displayed in Moot Court by Hawkes, whose simple question, Who's he? and adjuration of the court to hasten the Holy Alliance of Divine with Human Law,were, in familiar phraseology, complete oratorical arts. Our styles of oratory are numerous and widely different: Carey, Conlon, Tyner, Montgomery, Red- ington, each is an orator Sll1.g'67ZU7'l1S':l: and no one is likely to infringe. The objects of the Kent Club are three: tal To awaken interest in the important questions of the day. Qbj To acquire knowledge of Parliamentary Law. fel To gain practice in Debate. Our work under division one may be explained by a reference to the answer of a certain Junior, who, on being asked in what line of business he was Nom, llo not confound with .vu1'j1rr11r.

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Tllli YAl,l'I SIIINGIJC. 79 motions, appeals, questions of privilege, etc., ard izyf, and any extended review of the same is conducive to a recurrence of the general intellectual mania or raging incohercnce produced by the experience. The third division of our subject will be merely a consideration of The Moore-Gouraud Debate alias California fav. London. Probably no controversy in our entire history has occasioned so much discussion before and after, and this is onfered as the reason for its extended notice in this place. There seemed to hover about those names a magnetism, which attracted men who never before had displayed the slightest interest in the Kent Club and the many remarks preceding the eventful night promised a full force. Expectations were not left unfulfilled and the large crowd settled into quiet anticipation. The secretary having read the question of the evening, Resolved, that the abolishment of the House of Lords would be bencheial to Great Britain, Moore was called to the floor to lead the afhrmative. Without the least exaggeration may it be stated that,could those English Lords see themselves as painted in Room 13, Yale Law School, they would without delay beg leave of absence to enter the New Haven Night Schools. So much for the intellectual side of their characters, for their morals, no remedy but suicide. Gouraud, in the excitement of his response, forgot his London dialect and bravely supported his brothers.