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

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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.

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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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SO Tllli YAl.l'I SIIINGIJC. The climax was 1'eached when Moore, called again to the lloor, began with emphatic :f'left-hand gesture, Friends, Romans, Country-men ..... No pen can even passably describe that burning Hood of eloquence. Suffice it to say that it was just at this point of time that Demosthenes experienced his closest shave. Having restored, by a long but very gradual peroration,our hearts to normal condition, he was about to take his seat, when to the delight of all, Bowers moved an extension of his time. Gouraud having magnaniniously declared he hadn't the slightest objection to a continuance, believing it would make no particle of diH'erenec in the vote, we were again treated to California's brightest fancies. Of the many astounding statements made in the debate one that will live longest and hence deserves special men- tion, is the following: We had a Lord out VVestg he worked on our farm, and really that man was so disgustingly low he would smoke a cigrrette after mc. The vote upon the merits of the debate was very close and Moore in the generosity of his heart land the extent of the generosity maybe inferred from the fact that he offered to pawn his overcoat to lend a friend live dollarsj made every effort to give the vic- tory to the opposition. Boys, do not take it ill if your names do notappear in this short article and Boys, don't take it ill if your names do appear. i For a last time to recall to your minds the Kent Club, upon which I cannot place to high a value and to which I wish all success. -Y-mT .Nole.mvwE1oi'e is pxzolmbly lel't-handed.