Kansas City School of Law - Pandex Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Go, little booklet, go, Until everywhere that you have went, They 're glad that you have came. 16 James Whitcomb Riley

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The leading idea of a school founded upon the plan of evening sessions is, that students undertaking the study of law should be brought as much HS possible into constant touch with the practical part of the profession, so that their practical and theoretical knowledge may progress, if possible, to- gether. The faculty are none of them devoted to the business of teaching as a means of livelihood, but are all constantly engaged in the active exer- ' ' 1 f CISG of their profession. They bring to the class-room the fi esh resu ts o eV91'y day contact with the administration of the law. The students are, ' ' ' h t f many of them, located in law oiiices in the city, and spend the ours ou o the class work in learning the details of practice, the operation of the courts, b and the general duties of the advocate and the counselor. It has long een found that the large city is the only proper place for the location of medical . . . f and dental professional schools, the reason being that the opportunities or clinics and practical training in the hospitals of a large city, the variety of cases which can be observed there and the wider scope of practice, gives a Y lfb1'S9 City an insurmountable advantage over the smaller towns. Phe same reasoning has now come to be applied to pro large City. With its multitude and variety of courts and its great oiiices, its municipal problems and its large corporate interests, has a tremendous ad- Vfmtfbge over the smaller town, where a law student, however fine a theo- retical training oifered to him, would fin ' ' pensable, practical training of his profession. Even in this age of rapid organization and progress, it is hardly possible for an institution of merit to spring full armored into the arena. It re- quires some growth of years to perfect an institution and to reveal its weakness or its strength and this is especially true of an institution of lefifnillg- ' The capital of such an institution consists in .its expenditure of intellectual labor: the pillars of its strength are its Alumnig year by year, -Sililllering around the common center and building up its walls more endur- mg than brick and mortor. The Kansas City School of Law has not been without its struggles, and its present success has not been without the ex- penditure of patient, self-sacriiicing effort on the part of the faculty, whose principal motive has been the establishment of a useful center of profes- sional 192l1'11iUg in Kansas City and whose chief reward has been the ad- vancement and elevation of the cause of their chosen profession. After ten years of unremitting labor, much of it under circumstances of great discouragement, their reward has taken tangible shape. An institution widely known throughout the Central West for a well chosen curriculum, thoroughly and earnestly followed, a high standard of scholarship and pro- lumni dotted all over the western states rapidly making itself felt at the bar. fessional law schools and the d himself isolated from the indis- fessional ethics 3 and an a -ll'1'n. P. liorlfmd. 15

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H. M. BOYLE. O. D. LEMING. IC. E. MORRIS. T. F. RAILSBACK. H. B. MANARD EDITORIAL STAFF. 17