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

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E C IDAIXISIEDHJI ' L li I E Class Poet 's Page Last night I read a decision, By a judge both learned and great, It was lengthy and learned and heavy, I read it from six until eight. Last night I read a decision, I couldn't quite make it out, Tonight I am supposed to recite on it, And I don't know what it is all about. Oh give 1ne not just money Nor fame, nor praise, or gain, I care not for the numbers VV ho might call me by my name. But make me straight and honest, That I may see my soulg Not as a dark shriveled spirit g But clean and white and Whole. johnny had a law book, Its printing was fine and black 3 Johnny studied his law book, From the front cover to the back. Johnny learned a lot of law, He kept it in his head, It was too much for Johnny, Because now poor johnny's dead. Here's to the girls at law school, Breaking into a new field, Like true pioneers they have entered and conquered And planted their banner and shield. They've given up dates and dancing, And worked with us side by side, They've proved to be swimmers in life's river, And not just floaters upon the tide. I-Iere's to judge Pickett, I-Ie stands about six foot fourg I-Ie is big and gray and husky, I-Ie darn near fills a door. I-Ie shoots you long assignments, And makes you work right wellg I-Ie jokes and kids as he teaches, But his exams are just plain h-l. 74 1926 7, R. I-I. Haen

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Wallace I. Kargman spends much of his time in Europe as Director of the Olympic Contests. He is assisted by Louis Friedman and William E. Hoerger. Hoerger and Friedman, in addition to this work, are also licensed attorneys in France, and have quite a practice there. Ralph Rubin and Harry L. Stripe are bank presi- dents. Rubin is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Stripe is president of the City National Bank of Baltimore. 1? Q Our famous justices of the' peace, Wilfred E. Hall and Harold J. Tallett, certainly have advanced since our college days. Benjamin F. Wupper, Mayor of Waukegan and North Chicago which now of course are consolidated into one city, told me that Hall sits in the Supreme Court of Illinois, while Tallett is also a member of the Supreme Court. I was glad to learn that Paul D. Speer and Ulysses Simpson Young are on the Appellate bench in Illinois, and that Robert Dean Welsh, Al Ziedman and James E. Wright are Circuit Court judges, s Richard A. Wiseman, the Randolph Hearst of yes- teryear, controls a good many more papers than Hearst ever thought one man could controlf I'll have to sign off as my valet just informed me that Irving E. Greenberger, Ambassador to Sweden, has arrived to keep a dinner appointment with me. With my kindest regards to you and best wishes for the success of the college, I am Most cordially yours, Juul Bertram Levie. 53

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U Q t 1 Insliitumr - i 5 E History of the February Class of 1926 Genesis. T was in the month of February of 1923 that some ninety students enrolled in the Chicago Kent College of Law in the Lake View Building. And all these ninety burned with good resolutions and intense ambitions, some to be prominent and successful attorneys, some to be instructors at their alma mater, and some, yes, some few courageous ones, to be judges, judges those solemn creatures with black gowns and wrinkled foreheads, judges who hold the key to the interpretation of law-they were at the'top notch of human achievement in the minds of these idealistic young law students who had not as yet learned that between judges themselves there are serious conflicts on the interpretation of law. And with these ideals ever present in the margin of their consciousness, these ninety began life as the future graduates of the class of February, 1926. IN THE WILDERNESS Outdoors it was very cold in that February of 1923, but the beginning freshmen sitting in Judge Pickett's class-room, eyes glued on him, pondering at the ease with which some of the advanced freshmen answered the questions put to them, and shrinking from the Judge's I-lere's one'for you , felt un- comfortably warm. For the lot of these Midyear men was beset with difficulties. They were obliged to take second semester work without having any knowledge of what had gone before. So in their course of work they studied Contracts 2 without knowing anything about Contracts 1. Small wonder then that life was hard! Besides, they were placed with advanced freshmen, who by contrast with the beginners seemed to be fountains of legal knowledge. And the new- comers' awe of their more learned classmates was increased by the fact that the instructors knew them and called them by name. Do you remember, you who remain of the ninety, what joy it was to you as freshmen to have the prof call you by name and recognize you in the hall? Days seemed long, but months passed rapidly. The class was large, the method of teaching new, and the legal phraseology very difficult. Students were no longer implored to study as they had been in the schools previously attended. Here one studied and prepared his assignments or in the words of the illustrious Judge Pickett fell by the wayside . Legal-rules were many, and exceptions were far more numerous. The road was long, and the destination uncertain. And these young men were burdened not only with earning their livelihood, but with the tremendous task of acquiring some definite knowledge of that intricate mass of precepts incorporated in the term designated as law . With the completion of the first semester examinations, however, and the renewed courage that came from the successful passing of examinations, they became more serene. True their conception of the law had undergone a complete change. They no longer thought of a lawyer as one who talked fluently and gesticulated wildly. One could not pass his examinations just by being a good orator. Definite knowledge was required in each subject, and that could be had only by hard work. So these students learned early in their course that only as a result of hard study outside of class and intelligent attention to classroom instruction, would they understand the basic principles of law. 55 219i'E6f