John Marshall Law School - Abstract Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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THE JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL CTrf} who offer this book have attempted to cap ' ture within its covers the domi ' nant motive vi hich, hke light and shadow, casts its reflection upon this school and all who enter it. ' f 1 - Uiiitii

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JOHN MARSHALL Chief Justice, United States Supreme Court 1801-1835 THE CLASS OF JUNE, 1938 AND THE CLASS OF FEBRUARY, 1938 Present ABSTRACT THE JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL Chicago Illinois

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THE ABSTRACT— 1937 PROGRESS QDOOK about you and you will realize that civilizations are ' not composed ot great men and vital elements, nor are they even dependent upon them. If all ditch diggers were brutes and all senators saints, of what value the Senate? Democracy, though some would have us believe otherwise, exists not by virtue of those who forge to the front alone; for what leader could stand or write or speak before a mass of evil men all over the earth? Somehow, slowly, inter- minably, the germs of progress have spread, are spreading and will continue to spread — not more appreciably through an Edison than through a store clerk who wrote a foreign dictator and challenged him to a fair fight, the American way. Draw back the curtains upon the monumental stage that IS History and in ever ' act one thing becomes increasingly apparent; that there is only one gesture which the players of progress can execute — and that is the forward step. Unless this be maintained the scene shifts; the stage begins to darken, and old familiar shadows like hooded lepers stalk into view. Ignorance, Fear, Brutality, Avarice, and Greed return to blot the footprints which the heroes made. Whenever and wliere- ever this tragedy is played — then let all the nations of the earth take heed; For all the world ' s a stage. — — Irwin Ratner. i Hd