Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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Iames Stainforth Earley, St. Paul, Minnesota Charles William Eastman, Brighton, Massachusetts Iohn Polhemus Elliott, Oswego, Illinois Ioseph William Ellis, Ir., Bufalo, New Yorlg Don Fallgatter, Wcmprmz, Wisconsin Sophia Fischer, Easton, Pennsylvania Earl Hubert Fisher, Rock Rapids, I own Henry Benedict Fisher, Ir., Strcator, Illinois Iames Beye Fyfe, Oalq Parlq, Illinois Leonard George Ghering, Tryonzfille, Perzfzsylzfanlzz 56

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A GENTLEMAN AT THE BAR fAUTHOR,S NOTE! Being numbered among the above class of pro- fessional artists, both in the legal and illegal aspects of the phrase, I have had opportunity during the past winter to read a number of recent decisions in the courts and wish to set one out below for the ediiieation of the readers of the Towwrr who may not be as favorably located near the source of supply as I am here in Detroit., THE PEOPLE at-fm JOE GRAD 469 U. s. 7465 ,Q N APPEAL from reality Ioe Grad was found ilt fyglugv i cr1mes and given life at hard labor Submitted Iune - 4 4- 1926. Recently decided and ,affirmed by the full bench, Richman, Chief Iustice, presiding, Poorman, Begger- 1-,ei1ii'fi-fwfr of coNeE1T and SWVELL-HEAD, early common law man, Thief, Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant, Chief Associate Ius- tices. The opinion given by the Chief Iustice sufficiently states the facts necessary for the full understanding of the case: Ion GRAD was found guilty as charged in the indictment and sentenced to life at hard labor. His defense was the world owed him a living. The young man was reared in the nurture and admonition of a Christian home and had many advantages in his early youth. In 1921 he left home to go to a small town in Ohio to enter college in pursuit of a higher education. He never caught up. This Court will take judicial notice that the college is non- sectarian, is not a trade school Qfor if it were, the respondent would not be before us on this chargej and that the plan, there founded, of working five weeks and loafing the next 55

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if-f-J five weeks, was said by an eminent authority to be the great- est advance in education in America in the past umpty years. QDid he not overlook that 'Lnoble experiment, prohibition?j Let us unwind the devious trail left by the respondent despite the red herrings he so artfully dragged across the path. I-Ie stands before us today buffeted by reality. He was led by ambition to the pinnacles of opportunity, and battered five years of his life for what lay before him in the valley. He took up First INTER-collegiate athletics, and when his preceptors forbade that pleasure, his fertile mind conceived INTRA- collegiate sports, until the posthumous heir threatens more evil than the deceased parent dreamed of. He chose cards, playing poker with cronies behind drawn shades and locked doors. Again the guiding hand . . . again the wily culprit with now habitual finesse, risked a lower card when the strict rules of play called for a higher, and Bridge became the game, played in the parlors of his educators! Fraternities were frowned down, organized halls given official sanction .... A rose by any other name would smell as sweet and he stays nestled in this incubator of sterility. Need we further clutter our opinion with similar occurrences? 57