Central Normal College - Centralian Yearbook (Danville, IN)

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ro- IgG ea- 2ad rn. th- uc- ual .mg HTG ' of the ' to aw lege mity are ?ntS stu- ned has the art- ties glut uch I' so f-'UIU Members of Law Department' A. J. Stevenson, Head ofllaw Department X Lloyd O. Brown -, ,, Herbert T. Slaton 1 43 Harlan Hadley li t mu X' Stacy Miner Q 5 fig Paul Cockrill HW Grant Walls lf L 'f-Lil John Cooper W , Lawrence Hobbs Q25 P3 yy 1 0 fll' C l I Fifty-Five in .- I 7 ll Tlx! l l r H A .5 1 QQ ---nf, lgrgsf., a 'Q'

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J , if fl? Mig N I I f ' 'ik Kkkkx u .nl XA gl I ' kr ll if J' f :pi D Law Department T The subject of law has long been an important study. The law pro- fession, like other professions, has rather recently undergone a great change and development. The day has passed when a young man with little educa- cation may become errand boy to a lawyer and durir g his idle moments read a few books on the subject of law, and in a few years have an office of his own. Today no young man or woman thinks of beginning the practice of law with- out several years of study in some college or university under skilled instruc- tors. No field of service or profession affords greater or keener intellectual competition than that of the law profession. Thus it behooves every young man and every young woman who has ambitions in the legal field to prepare well for the work that he or she plans to do. The Law Department of Central Normal College has for a number of years offered a splendid opportunity to all students who desire to begin the study of law. The number of students who enter the law course are few to compare with those entering many other courses 5 nevertheless the law course makes one of the important departments of the institution. The law Department maintains a law library separate from the College library, andthus gives the students of the law classes a better opportunity for reference and research work. Recently several hundred volumes have been added to the law library, making it up-to-date in providing the students with the best material possible. . A The moot trial system is used from time to time for the advanced stu- dents, which gives them an opportunity to use some of the knowledge gained in class recitation and in research study. This system of instruction has the advantage of familiarizing the aspirants of the ,law profession with the methods of court procedure. The ability of the members of this Depart- ment not only manifests itself in class but in many of the school activities as well. It is hoped that not all the great air castle ideas will come to naught when the young lawyers leave C. N. C., but that a few years will find each of them achieving the heights of success which is due all those worthy of so great a profession. Jnvnmmg WJ, fl a ll . - Q C g Fifty-Four 1 Ll Fift!l'F'irg

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l 1'l 1 l l ,. l 1. 'v I ll li 1. I I 1 v l f I I , ,l l l Q i F l R l I l W I1 ef' in i f m il il up f ict kxkkx il tl' Y -3- m Commercial Department The first catalog issued by the College was published at Ladoga in the summer of 1877. In this catalog is noted a Commercial Department with courses in bookkeeping and penmanship. Whether these courses were given during the year 1876 or not, the writer has found no one able to say 5 but at any rate the Commercial Department is one of the oldest of the school. These courses were taught for nearly twenty years to which then was added a course in shorthand. ' In the beginning the personnel of the Department was masculine, but gradually as the women began to extend their fields of activity they came into the commercial work and at the present time there are more girls than boys enrolled. Long ago the Commercial Department was the department of misfitsf' If a student failed to make license after several attempts he was switched onto the commercial track. Sometimes a father and mother decided that they did not want their son, or daughter, to work as hard as they, so they brought him to school where he was started in a commercial course, and then felt that their son was well on the way to join the White Collar Brigade. Gradually people all over the world have awakened to the fact that commercial work is serious anc. practical., From this realization came a demand for specially equipped depagrtments in the high schools of the land with well trained teachers to head these departments. Central Normal College was one of the first to found a special department for the training of commercial teachers. In March 1921 this Department of C. N. C. was accredited by the State Board of Education for the training of commercial teachers. From this time there has been a steady increase in the number gradu- ating from the commercial course. Students of this Department will be found in every state of the Union. Many men and women have contributed their share to the upbuilding of the Commercial Department and all share a common hope that it will not only round out another half century, but like Tennyson's brook, Go on forever. Fifty-Six Jfmwmm N C' 3 l. , i 1 . iii ll 1 - ac l Fi-fly-Sf