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

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10. 11. 12. 15. 14. 15. 16. Rights or claims of certain instructors to assign lessons which are three times as long as they should be. fln order to cure this defect it is suggested that you get an affidavit from one Judge Pickettj. Rights of certain embryo politicians to display their political wares and to broadcast the longcomings and shortcomings of the respective candidates for the I innumerable class offices. Leans of certain near maniacs to work cross word puzzles on the class room walls. Rights of certain members of the feminine sex to contaminate the atmosphere in the class rooms by vigorously powdering their physiognomies during class periods. Impudent questions of survey. Satisfy yourself that the buildings on said premises do not encroach upon the adjoining premises and that there is no danger of the buildings on the adjoining premises tumbling down on top of the college building. Rights of incoming freshmen to amuse themselves between class periods by sliding down the bannisters and playing marbles in the hallways. - Mechanics leans which various mechanics may claim against said property, but whose claims are so ridiculous that they have not had the audacity to put them on record. Very truly yours, Smullin' s Abstract Foundry JTD-HAJ Page 172

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said premises, not appearing of record, excepting where they have recorded themselves on the calcimine of said walls. ' Special assessments, including incidental fees, for the years, '22-'23, '23-'24, and, '24-'25, matricula tion fee, abstract fee, diploma fee, and examination books, and special taxes for dance tickets, smokers and other forms of class enjoyment. General taxes for the years, '22-'25, '25-'24, and, '24-'25, covering text books and all paraphernalia for the study of the law. An easement, dated September ll, 1925, and existing in favor of the Glass of '26, recorded in the office of the college on that date as Document No. 56, allowing for ingress and egress to and from the upper floors of the college building, together with the right to gaze upon the seniors at their work and play and to emulate their stimulating example. An easement, dated September 12, 1924, and existing in favor of the Class of '27, recorded in the office of the college on that date as Document No. 57, allowing for ingress and egress to and from the upper floors of the college building, together with the right to gaze upon the seniors at their Work and play and to emulate their stimulating example. Rights or claims of several of the more sleepy students to occupy the back seats in the class rooms and to snore visibly and audibly during class periods Rights or claims of one Reuben B. Short to deposit himself in one of the easy chairs in the front office of the college and to remain there for the space of three hours each evening. I Rights of the incoming freshmen to have an extra amount of heat in their class rooms in order that they may become dried out more quickly, thereby eliminating their naturally greenish appearance. Page I7I

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Zilhiz Zlnhvniure lllitnezznih, That the gi-autor-, THE CLASS or NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE OF CHICAGO-KENT COL- LEGE OF LAW, of the City of Chicago, County of Cook and State of Illi- nois, for the consideration of having received some knowledge of the law, conveys and quitclaims to the CLASSES OF NINETEEN HUNDRED TVVENTY-SIX and NINETEEN HUNDRED TWENTY'-SEVEN OF CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW, of the City of Chicago, County of Cook and'S'tate of Illinois, all its interest, whether past, present or future, in the following described real estate, towit: Lots Three CSD, Five Q51 and the north eight Q83 inches of'Lot Four QU, in the Assessor's Division of Lot Eight CSQ, in Block Fifty-three Q53j, in the Original Town of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois, other- ii wise known as Number 10 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois, together with all its interest in the following: 1. Rights to parade the campus with the pompous air of one who knows it all. 2. Rights to assume a short stubby pipe and to gloss one's hair with Stacomb. 3. Rights of law clerks to argue undisputed points with Professor Hig- gins. . i 4. Rights of late comers to stumble about and make nuisances of them- selves. 5. Rights of certain gentlemen to cause a shuffling of feet when it is their opini on that the time for dismissal has arrived. 6. Rights of certain cigarette hounds to smoke at all occasions and make it difficult for others to think. 7. Rights of Ben joseph to slam the west windows. 8. Rights of certain gentlemen who invariably congregate in the door- ways to knock down Engh's derby and trample on it. 9. Rights of certain gentlemen to titter and guffaw at the slightest sug- gestion of humor. 10. Rights of certain young gentlemen to spend all of their recess period in earnest conversation with Miss -Solon. TOGETHER with all of its right, title and interest in and to all of the many privileges which are common to SENIORS at Chicago-Kent College of Law, hereby releasing and waving on high all rights under and by virtue of Section 7-ll-13, Paragraph III, Chapter 1595, Volume 5 of Dillon's Re- vised Code of the Unwritten Laws of Illinois. Page I73