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

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l N S J SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Continued To the class of '07 also belongs the distinction of asserting its prerogative in the matter of class organizationg for it was through its discernment and prompt action that the smallness of a school FratH was exposed, and it was through the sterling democratic spirit of its majority that the brand of disapproval was placed upon any secret organi- gation seeking by indirection, duplicity and small shrewdness to dictate through the voice of a few of the select the machinery Of class organization. Nor did it cease with the verdict of ouster in its proceeding of quo zz'fz1'rcz1z.to, but inflicted the supreme pen- alty, and stretched upon the fence its punctured epidermis as a grim reminder to any who might in future years propose anything less than a majority rule in the classes of the Kansas City School of Law. Again, it has taken the initiative in setting the precedent of an annual Washington Day Banquet, in which all members of the school, save the defunct organization herein- before mentioned, have participated. It might be added with regret that two of our best men were lost to the class by those misfortunes that too often wait upon us all. Our worthy brother, I. H, Wood, who soon would have finished his professional preparation, was killed in a railroad accident. While as mail clerk he supported himself during his professional studies. Later in the year our worthy brother, D. C. Philbrick, on account of failing health, was forced to give up his Studies, a misfortune greatly regretted by all who knew his worth. Thus briefly has been recited a few ofthe essential incidents of our historyg and now, though lingering with reluctant feet Where we must turn from the pleasant asso- ciations with our fellow students and our honored faculty, let us away toward the fu- ture, where the game becomes more seriousg where the gaiety of moot court must be exchanged for the stern responsibility that must rest upon counsel at the bar of public justice, where are to be weighed in the balance the rights of life, liberty and property. -16- 'i ,

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I SENIOR CLASS HISTORY , As the evening of our school day deepens into the lengthening shadows of the twi- light, it is with many pleasing recollections that we dwell in retrospection upon the well nigh finished task. It is with a feeling, mingled with regret and pleasure, that we view the close, regret in that it ends a pleasant intercourse with men whose honesty of pur- pose, whose vigor of determination, and whose ever ready cordiality has left a place within the sanctuary of memory that will long be green with pleasing recollections. There is, however, pleasure in the contemplation in that we feel that something has been accomplished. Whatever of the great principles of the law we may have been able to make a part of ourselves, whatever of legal acumen may be ours as a result of our three years of professional training, it can be of no greater value to us than the wholesome association that has been ours, with such men as have constituted the class of 1907. Who is there among us who could forget the idea of perspicuity instilled by the dauntless Skinner in his prolonged endeavor to make a lucid demonstration of the pre- liminary and final arrangements for the inter-collegiate debateg or who in the years to come, when the sharp tongue of sarcasm will have made him wince with a consciousness of a too well directed bolt, will not, while the laugh goes round, imagine that down through the years he hears the fog-horn cadence of the illustrious Staggers breathing in his ear, I'll bet that cut 'im, or imagine the look of supreme satisfaction trans- formed to one of unspeakable surprise as it raises or lowers upon the hideous physiog- nomy of the pugnacious agitator. The record of our past is indeed secure. No other class has ever broken half so many window lights, no other class in its sonorous debates has been able to substitute so much of concussion for discussion, or hide in the mantle of sincerity so much of uncom- promising, bald-faced and monumental grand-standing, neither have they been able to pile the chairs half so high, in those private gatherings known in law school parlance as A rough house. Nor are these the only claims to distinctiong for there is another count in the petition that we believe establishes a substantial claim of title. In our ability to rough the Freshmen we have been without a pier in the history of the school. In the selection of fragrant perfumes and smelling salts with which to anoint the altar of the Freshman sanctuary, we have transcended all known smells heretofore known to chemistry, and have left for the soothing of their olfactory equipment such fragrance as Florida's blooming shores ne'er wafted to the ravished nostrils of Ponce De Leon, and to be compared with which the pungency of a striped polecat would seem like the frag- rance of a violet bed. ,151

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