IIT Chicago Kent College of Law - Transcript Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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THE. if Ni I DUNLAP Mc Gookrv rirrua SELINGER BISHOP, Coach QUIGLEY DICKSON g Swimming are as yet unknown, due to the any meets. Swimming has de- activity and judging from the tank promises to be a coming sport in the school. ' The relative merits of the swimming team fact that the team has been unable to engage veloped into more or less of an intra-mural number of candidates practicing in the Y The team defeated Y. M. C. A. College 48 to 20 in the Y. M. C. Ag tank and swam against Notre Dame University being in turn' defeated 40 to 28. In the last meet john McGoorty was not with the team, which proved a great handicap. V Wresil ing Our wrestling team has been one that was hard to beat,-in fact, it was not beaten this year. The first match was between Chicago-Kent and the University of Chicago. Uur little giant, Sandy Frankenstein, took his man's measure, and Selinger did likewise. Then, as you know, at the First Annual Homecoming both of our wrestlers succeeded in pinning the Armour men to the mat. - ' It has been av very successful start, and we hope that the loss of one member of the team will not be too great a handicap for the coming year. 1 - 'Nf Page T32 219257

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7 NZ Page 34 Y if 1 Ivalxfiicffnnvr ,H Background for the Law HON. NINIAN H. WELCH. No one begins the study of law with the sole and primary purpose of becoming wealthy. Law students, whether they admit it or not, are actu- ated to begin their studies by a lofty idealism. They thrill underthe story of the attainment of human liberty. They realize that autocracy never willingly yielded any of its choice privileges. They learn that liberty was gained step by step, through countless ages. They dramatize in their minds the conflict between the castle on the hill and the cabin in the valley. They come to a realization that humanity's leaders and champions, in all of the long struggles, have largely been lawyers. They read ofparliamentary struggles in august congresses and humble assemblies, and note, with delight, that most of the minds that lead are legally trained. 4 They read history with a new interest and discover with unconcealed joy that the language in which is written the Magna Charta, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, is the language of their law books. ' They are thrilled by the conquest of the lawyers who have gone before. One must not getz lost in the material meshes of the process of becoming a lawyer, and lose the bright, shining vision which gleamed in the sky at the beginning. I This is a material age. Chicago is a material city. It is located at the head of five great sweetwater seas, and at the gateway of the widest, richest prairies on the planet, its location ought to make it romantic, but it has smoke-belching engines in its front yard and cannon-like chimneys shooting the blue out of the sky everywhere. , A The marvelous idealism of leadership, which actuates the men and women who study law, must not be lost to the world. The law student, with face clear and pale from abstemious living, must not be lost in our present soul-killing materialism. The farmer boy leaning back between the plow handles in his father's field, sees, through the purple haze of Indian summer, the corn shocks turn into tower and turret in some great city of dreams and opportunity. The young folk of the city, in counting house or on a campus, dream of the fields of contest, and see, in vision, the thickest fighting close about the nodding plumes of their own war bonnets. Students of law should never lose the shining vision which lured them at the beginning. I There is less danger that students will know too little law, than that they will be unwise in dealing with men and women. Wisdom comes only frompexperience and a thoughtful consideration of everything, in its every relation. ' ' One cannot superlatively charm or conclusively persuade and convince his fellow man unless he have a rich resource of knowledge-wisdom, per- sonality and character. He can best do all of this by communing with all K--'Y 1925