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

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! t 1 Tl?ANiii6llll9T , have all the law at our lingers' ends, but that we would also be able to make any old jury sit up and take notice. We were also deeply impressed at the way in which horses were warranted and bales of cotton stopped in transitu, and as for a minor's contract, why we all knew absolutely that it was either good, bad or indifferent according to whether or not the minor was over twenty-one. VVe1'en't we thrilled to find out that burglary could only be committed in the night-time so as to give the pick pockets a break during the day? And didn't we air our new-found learning at home and to our friends? The reason for all this enthusiasm is plain. The elementary subjects were taught us by men so well versed in the technicalities and intricacies of the fun- damental subjects that they sneaked a lot of darn hard stuff over on us before we began to feel sorry for ourselves, working all day long at the Eastern Elec- tric Company and rushing down town to night law school with only a few cur- rents and nuts to sustain us. That was a mean trick on the part of the profs. But, doggone, it worked and lots of us even as seniors remember something about Torts and' Personal Property. . Later on we sort of got wise to the fact that we were being used by the profs and we started to resent it. Then was when we started to argue and air our own views, forgetting that all these profs had probably spent more time actually arguing before juries than we had spent in law school. In the junior year, we took on a show me attitude and, having been told that this year was pretty stiff, we made up our minds to get our money's worth. Estates in tail per autre vie, absque hoc and non obstante veredicto were to the right of us, puis darrein continuance, cestui qui trusts and holographic wills to the left of us, while in front of us, 1T1L1Cl'l volleying and thundering. But it was a thundering that the wise ones heeded. It was the idea of looking it up and digging it out that was being hammered home to us by some of the very same, formerly pleasant profs that had carefully and quietly explained all these things to us the first year. But by some hook or crook, the profs did Hnally make it clear that Heaven was still on the job, and even in the study and practice of the law, helped those that helped themselves. Coming into the stretch, these profs again started hammering, but we sort of noticed an easing up on that line of attack, and an attempt, successful in the main, to get those of us that were left after Valentine Day to apply the fun- damenals that we learned in our first year to some other facts that we had looked up and dug out and then reason our way out into the clear. Now then, we come to the finale. VVl1at kind of fellows are these profs anyhow? In a few words, they are a sincere, high-minded group of men, looked up to by their professional associates, respected and admired by their friends and acquaintances, who, for the satisfaction, knowing that their arduous, painstak- ing efforts, put forth at the ends of busy days in the courts and offices, are the means of preparing for a professional career, us students of the law. And just about the time we are old enough to appreciate their efforts, we hope that we may meet them in legal combat in the courts of justice and try out some of their own stuff on them, and may the last juror awake please remember,--absque hoc, we would be plasterers at S14 per day- HAROLD T. Human, '26. 110 1926 7, 'st JN! if JM .-vis jx

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fi l f as to whom the above questions must be answered in the negative, be advised to alter their plans. and to prepare themselves for some other occupation to which they are more suited. It is as impossible to eliminate the personal element from the teaching of law as it is to eliminate it from a jury trialg and so I feel moved to say that, thirdly, we view each student not only as a problemg not only as a potentialityg but also as a personality-as a person. We of the faculty have each and all been through the same mill. XVe have attended law school ourselves-many of us at this very college. VVe see, in each class that we confront. other young men encountering the same difficulties, and seeking to meet and cope with and solve the same problems that faced each of us ten or twenty or thirty years ago. And we find, in teaching them, opportunities to be of help to them. There is an inspiration to be found in the acquaintanceship of earnest and ambitious young men. There is a real satisfaction in noting the progress through school of those students who in personality, and temperament, and mental ability have shown themselves fitted for the legal profession. There is a recompense, not capable of admeasurement in pecuniary terms, in the service. we thus render to the younger generation, and in the friendship and loyalty of the scores of young men yearly added to the roll of alumni of our mutual college. VVILLIA it G. W ooo The Facullp as Seen by the Student VVe have all been afforded the privilege of learning on many occasions via the printed page and viva voce, as the Italians used to say, just what the pro- fessors think of us students. Vlfhat could be more in keeping with Equity than an opportunity for these same students to defend themselves and also to air their views about the profs themselves? Of course, we have to do all the work, so we may not be able to come in with as clean hands as the profs, but since Equity looks to the intent rather than to the form, perhaps our good intentions will get us by. We don't for a minute want to be misunderstood about this here thing. This is not a criticism of the men who are giving of their time that we may be able to step from the platform of the Eighth Street Theater into some law office at S25 per. It is merely an appreciation of their efforts. It is interesting to note the changes in attitude towards the faculty mem- bers that come with the passing of the months as students. Well do we remem- ber the open-mouth attention which we gave our instructors as beginning How tickled to death we were to learn that rcs iflsa. Ioqzzitor meant that if we were in an elevator that fell, that the owners of the building could not deny it. And Master and Servant. Say, how we ate that stuff up! Didn't we think Will we ever get over being proud of our residence in the pork-packing queen of the sweet ater seas? Hot dog! That sure was sum'n, as Sam and Henry say every night at 10 P. M. W'e may have been just a little con- fused as to just how we were to work that into an impassioned plea to the jury to save poor Nell, but we never doubted for a minute that we would not.only 109 ist V NJ freshmen. that the fellow-servant idea was pretty good dope? 1926 y 'rv IX! JN

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! t 1 rvswstnunr 1 lust will ant Grstamrnt uf the Glass uf 1926 Hn tht Imam of Gut, ilmsuh Be it known that we, the members of the Senior Class of 1926, in the County of VV-orry and State of Examinations, being of nearly sound mind and memory, and realizing the short period left in which we are to remain the Senior Class of 1926, do make, publish and declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking and annuling any and all former wills by us at any time heretofore made. FIRST. VVe esteem in the seeming fitness of things that we should bequeath ourselves fwithout further explanation in the way of adjectives, commas or question marksj, metaphysically or psychologically, to Nature and the stars, trusting in the power of a legal education, united with native in- telligence, to shape us a destiny worthy to be envied by our followers, the lowly Freshmen and the haughty Juniors. SECOND. VVe desire our executors, hereinafter named, to pay the funeral expenses of any member ofthe graduating class who shall die from broken heart upon receiving the report of the Bar Examiners, in such state as the general fund in the class treasury will permit. THIRD. To make such disposition of our rights, privileges and property and appurtenances, and the like, thereof, as follows: Item. We give, devise and bequest all of our transferable knowledge 'in Common Law Pleadings, old examination papers and other such sundry negligible items, and all our property, real, personal and mixed of every name and nature, and wherever situate, to the incoming Senior Class or the probable survivors of said class and their successors, all of Chicago in said County and State, in trust, never the less, for the following purposes, to wit: to pay fees to the attorneys in Moot Court and to supply the Burke Debating Society with printed announcements of their regular Friday night meetings, in order that class may not be disturbed by a weekly speech of fifteen minutes or more in length delivered each Thursday night, announcing the meeting of the following mg it. Item. WVe give and bequeath to the members of the Freshman Class our right to render the school yell each night at six fifteen by way of soup in Greek at the Kent Luncheon located at eight North Franklin Street. Item. The following privileges and rights, now held and exercised by in- dividual members of the class, but belonging to the class as a whole, because it is a Senior Class, we do give, devise and bequeath as follows: The right to publish each month the Review to a member of the Junior Class, it being understood, however, that such member will receive the aid of a staff, such aid consisting in large measure of permitting the editor to publish their illustrious names in each issue. The right to publish the Transcript and appoint one of their number as editor is likewise given to the Junior Class, and in addition to publish their pictures in said annual individually and to appear as dignified as possible in said pictures. The right to advertise for employment in The Law Bulletin as law clerks and use the phrase, Kent Senior, salary no consideration is bestowed upon the individual members of the Senior Class of 1927, the present Junior Class. p 111 1926 7, P' 7x IX! QJXI V N