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

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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

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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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Q r 4 5 E The privilege of getting married, which privilege has been exercised by several members of the Senior Class, is given to all those who have satisfactorily completed the course in Domestic Relations. The completion of said course is made a prerequisite of the exercise of said right in order that those exercising it may know whether they are married or not and further that they may know their legal rights in said status. To one member of the Junior Class is granted the privilege of answering the roll call as being present , instead of the customary here Csuch right being now exercised by Mr. Grishj and it is our, request that preferably this right be granted a banker, in order that tradition may not be broken. THIRD. The entire residue and remainder of our rights, prerogatives, privileges, etc., and the like, no matter by whom now held, or in whaticondition, We give and bequeath unto the president of the next Senior Class to divide and distribute among his supporters. FOURTH. We hereby nominate and appoint Loren Bush Rockey and the members of the various Senior Committees executors of our last will and tCSt211UCl'l'C. SIGNED, SEALED, PUB- LISHED AND DECLARED as and for its last will and testament by the members of the Senior Class of 1926 in our presence, who at its request and in its presence and in the presence of each other, have hereunto set our hands and feet as subscribing wit- nesses. D. P. VARHLE. F. RHODE. . R. F. HIMMELHOCK. IN VVITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereto set ourihands and. feet this blank day of May A. D. 1926. 'Tue SENIOR CLAss or 1926. ,fwlflllllllll Illllmlllllll f xl .1 X LLZ, 19265