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

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84 THE YALE SHINGLE. and the Law School of which we are members may be instrumental to some extent in destroying the pop- ular impression that attorneys are mercenary rather than zealous servants of justice whose purpose it is to succor the oppressed. The fouwza! prospers, and in spite of tariff changes and industrial depression adds something to its sur- plus fund, the income of which is to be devoted to the enlargement and improvement of future volumes. As a legal publication the journal commends itself. Its contributors are lawyers of the Hrst rank and their productions are able treatises on important live topics. The support of the alumni has been cordial and second only to that of the Faculty of the Law School. And we believe that the journal has not been without influence upon the growth of the School in numbers and reputation. But this influence may well be doubled or even quadrupled. So far the fouwzzzl has served only as a medium for the discus- sion of legal questions. Another field lies open before it and should be occupied at once. Little or no effort has so far been made to keep the alumni and friends of the School in touch with its actual needs and active work. But an effort is now making to remedy this defect with fair promise of success. We are proud of the School and have confidence in its conservative methods and management. It is a good thing, and, therefore, we wish others to share in its advantages and in turn to spread abroad its fame. May the Law fomfmzl ever be true to learning and to Yale! P .W11,I,1AM B1mn1foR1m Bosm-:x'.

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THE YALE LAVV JOURNAL. The history of the organization of the Yah' Law fonrmzl and its subsequent career until the end of the second volume was briefly sketched in the Jqlfc' .Shfzzgle for 1893. The board of editors who had so ably and devotedly directed its course during the sec- ond year of its existence thought best to re-elect one of their number that the experience gained with so much difhculty by them might be at the service of their successors. Harry G. Day was the recipient of the honor. The other members of the succeeding board were Percy Finlay, Andrew J. Balliet, Law- rence M. Byers, Howard A. Couse, Thomas F. Farrell, L. P. Waldo Marvin, and William B. Bosley. They organized by electing Mr. Finlay chairman, and Mr. Bosley secretary and treasurer. The retiring editors gave us the needed admonition and encour- agement as they surrendered into our hands the active management of the fomfmzl. Messrs. Balliet and Byers afterwards resigned and were succeeded by Harrison B. Freeman and Charles Weiser. VVe all thought we were honored, we now know that the price of the honor is serious and conscien- tious effort for which experience gained is the only compensation. For however strange it may appear, the Law fourfzal is the only publication at Yale which is not intended to confer pecuniary benefits upon its editors. It is hoped that this instance of unselfish devotion to the interests of the profession

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4 RELIGIOUS. Vv'e have not begun preparations for the next world on a very extensive scale. Only half of us are church members, and as we survey the two bodies of those within the pale of the church and those With- out it, we wonder how many of each will End St. Peter propitious and Heaven's gate open on that dreaded day, when we must depart to the right hand or to the left. Thirteen men are Episcopalians, seven Roman Catholics, seven Congregationalists, three Presbyterians and three Methodists, the rest are scattered from Hard-shell Baptists to Orthodox Jews. The preferences of those who have identihed them- selves with no particular denomination are divided as follows: Seven for the Congregational church, three for the Episcopal and two each for the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Universalist. The remainder of the class, with the exception of those who stand alone in their creeds, either have'no preference or have failed to state it. Very few confess that they are unable to accept the tenets of some form of religion, the fact being rather that they have formed no definite ideas on the subject. One man says he is a heathen, without any further comment on his spir- itual prospects, while another says he has a tendency towards Unitarianism and Agnosticismf' as if they amounted to the same thing. Bonsall says. I have slept with the Quakers, sung with the Presbyterians,