Brooklyn Law School - Chancellor Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Freshman Evening FIRST YEAR FALL ours, JUNE, is 1 UDGE Carswell welcomed the incoming class. There were a great many faces we recognized in the group and we found new friends, too. We were duly impressed by the great number of students and the large auditorium fand the lowered lights seemed calculated to increase our awej. YW e covered Law from the Egyptians on down, in four sessions! On the fourth night we moved out of the auditorium and a great change came over us. Room 300 had a direct wire from the building across the street, and so all of us were able to see our notes for the first time, due to the improved lighting. There was, however, an abominable system of complete, absolute, and prejudicial class segregation in room 300. It seems that all the female students were put in the second row. I guess that's why all the boys in the front turned around when they recited. AND, the guy and the gal sitting next to each other at the end of the female section turned out to be brother and sister. That first Thursday we started to study Contracts. 'XWe had a large class, but due to the pace some of us fell by the wayside, in fact, in no time at all our numbers were sadly reduced. Studiousness increased after the first time we were called upon, and discovered, alas, that we had forgotten to include the decision of each court in Out notes! We thought we were going to be engrossed in legal studies, but actually we were engrossed in prayer. Please God, let the instructor call on Hal Schwartz, or Dillon, or Goldstein, or Seftel, or even on our 'shining light' Garvey. But donlt let him callon me. Our faith in the power of prayer was only shaken a few times. The few times each of us was called on. Prof. Coleman taught us Business Organization I on Wfednesday evenings. He assigned us as agents to do the homework, and we went into partnership with the briefs. We learned that an administrator is like an executor. fSee I Blackls Law Dictionary 3rd 6Oj. Vice Dean Prince is in charge of administration, or execu- tions. I-Ie gave us a very interesting talk one evening in the auditorium, about soldiering during the Indian Wars. Finals were taken or rather we were taken,' by the finals, on a Friday and Saturday evening. The survivors began Property I the Monday after the Saturday Contracts exam. Finals are given in the auditorium, we discovered, because the lighting is so poor that you can hardly see your own paper, let alone your neighborsl. The school is contemplating the addition of extra seats in the auditorium so that during the next exams, students will be five seats apart instead of three. This term, our instructors in Property I and Contracts 2 are Profs. Maloney and Thornton, respectively, and in the order named. We have nothing but the best to say about them, God Bless Them Both. After all, this was written two months before the end of the term. plgeF01lyre11en G!laf1Ce !Ol

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lireshrnan Evening, Class of 95l HE Freshman class was oriented into the field of law the first week of school, with a detailed survey of the background, standards, and.. .per- haps. . .a glimpse into the future of our profession-to-be. Our first week was a blur of exciting impressions, the large and rather impressive Qalbeit mustyj auditorium, with the City sky silhouetted in its windows, its sloping wooden chairs and echoing, amphitheatre-like appearance, the overwhelming Freshman class QCollege was never like thislj and the scholarly judge Carswell who delivered to us our initial lectures. We were busy, but only momentarily, it seemed, with the bustle of making new, and we are sure, lifelong friends, and with the pleasure of discovering ffor some of usj old acquaintances among the gang.', Then we were plunged into the intricacies of Contract Law and Business Organization. Those responsible for bringing order out of chaos during those first months were the benevolent Mr. Snyder, always calm and often humorous, and the stim- ulating Prof. Sugarman. We enjoyed most the times when Mr. Snyder, in Con- tracts, became sufficiently excited during a heated discussion to step down from the platform which somewhat isolated our professors from us, to pace the floor before us, while arguing a moot point. And after we got over our initial intellectual rustiness, our minds got quite a working out in Prof. Sugarman's Wednesday class, where giving a case was something like balancing on a mental tightrope while attempting to juggle adjectives. We found friends and formed groups almost at once. We were startled by our imperturbable class president, who was quick on the come-back every time, . . .a little skeptical of the two students who were always prepared, and charmed by the five girls, Qincreased to seven the second semesterj, who were given bull's-eye seats in second row, center. We are coming increasingly to realize, however, as the months advance during our first term at Law School, that our profession is a solemn and an important one. In this year of decision, one of many to come, law will form the framework for the world system of government we dare to hope will be realized. And we, as future lawyers, will hope also to be instrumental in the formation of these solemn years. Cgze 1948 Ghcznceffor Pagarmyax

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Freshman Day Class ol: Ilan. 951 I-IE past months have been ones of mixed emotions to the approximately 120 students who entered upon the study of the law last September. To many it was the first attempt at re-conversioni'-from recently discharged G.I., Gob, or Leatherneck, to the ever expanding group of students complet- ing their education which had remained in a state of suspended animation during the war years. Signs of restlessness during orientations on the historical background of the Law-the nervous tension during the early days of classes when your lucky,' seat number was called for a recitation on the doctrine of third party beneficiary in Contracts or attractive nuisance theory in tort liability -the quaint expressions of endearment showered upon the volunteer -were all reflections of the recently completed tour of duty for Uncle Sam! I As you have been able to gather, we are not very much different from the many other classes at the school. We have the same hopesg we share the same excruciating agonies of exam-preparation. We do fall prey to the cross-examina- tion of an instructor on The ONE day that I did not prepare my cases. Yes, we are made of the same stuff as those to Whom this book is being dedicated-with one exception. They have proved themselves in the field of study-we have yet to show our full abilities. And so we of the class of janu- ary, 1951 take our hats off to the graduating classes and extend our sincerest wishes to them for future success in the world of tomorrow. Cgfre G!lClflCQ'!!O1' Page Forty ezgbl