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

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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,

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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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86 Tllli YAl.l'1 SlllNliI.li. shouted with the Methodists, chanted with the Epis- copalians, and now, in despair, I study the wisdom- religion of Buddha and Blavatsky. We regret to dismiss Cromer's creed after quoting only the con- cluding sentence: I believe the earth to be the proper location for Heaven -earth where all green- ness is not arsenical, like that of wall-paper. Non- seetarians are plentiful. These broad-minded men, who condemn dogmatism and denominationalism, stay away from church for fear of the charge of being narrow. Three men worship the God of Abraham, one of them says he adheres to the jewish religion Because it teaches Humanity and Truthg it is my religion by birth, and, since I could reason, by choice. It is the source from which all laws and religions have their origin. One man accepts in general the doctrine of evolution. Another sums his religion up in the Golden Rule. Six men attend Center Church, five Trinity, four St. Paul's, three each the United Church and the Church of the Redeemer. Many other churches in the city are mentioned by those who have been to church during the course. One man says he attended one once, but has forgotten its name. Nearly every imaginable reason, except devotion, is given for attending the different churches. The good choir and Dr. Munger's sermons are the chief attractions of Center Church, though one goes there because There are few contributions, and the contribution is a tax. Formosac pucllac are responsible for the incidental good that the many they lead to go to church derive from it.- One man goes to Trinity