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

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SENIOR CLASS BEN. EDWARD TODD, President. First Term. L. F. WHITE. Vice-Presidn-nt. F. D. GLORE, Secretary. GEORGE T. BELL. Sergezmt-at-Arn1s. '1 OFFICERS. 2-S PHIL R. TOLL. President. Second Term. F. D. GLO R E, Vice-Presidvnt. WILLIAM H. MCLAREN Secretary. BAYLIS T. GORDON, Sergeant-at-A rms.

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Srninr Qllami Qiaturg By R. M. Randall. cars to he 2111110241 wliose tl1ree years great work ahead, being a Senior is Front the l'i1'CSlllll21ll.S yiewpniiit, lacing' a Senior app tl1e perfect f111fill111e11t of one's wishes. llut to tl1e Seniorl of preparatio11 have hrougln 111111 to a realizing se11se of the if 11e would 1X'lll Il measure of success: the lllllJOl'lZlllCC ot altogether lost 111 tl1e contemplation of tl1e 111easureless t11sk that lies before llllll. llc realizes that only tl1e fOtlllllZlf1f71l has been laid. upon which he must rear tl1e superst1'uct11re unaided and alone. 'llhe class of 'OS feels Zl just pride 111 it's record a11d acliievenients as Z1 class. XYC have no intention, however, of solociting adiniratioii by any lofty encontiunis 111 which tl1e iinagination 111ay be given free rei11 to draw froni fancy's real111 those panegyrics. wherein the historian is soinetiines wont to indulge. Suffice it to say that we have fir111 f11it11 i11 ourselves, and ere long expect to convince the world-or certain portions of it-that the 111011 who constitute the class of 'o8. are of the right girth Zlllil grain. lt was in our Frcshntan year, tl1at we first startled tl1e Faculty with those qualities of perspicacity, wl1icl1 have so distinguis11cd 115 tlirouflli the three years of o11r existence as 21 c111ss. XYe early organized, and Olll' meetings were CllLll'ZlClCl'lZCll by transient spnrts of Cl0ClLlC1lCLI,u whose resonances soon attracted tl1e attention of tl1e class of 'OU a11d they challenged Ili to debate! needless to say, they were badly worsted. 1l'e returned as .luniors soniewhat l1llllllll5llCK1 in lll1llllJCl'S. but none tl1e less ardent and entltusiastic. After diligent and assiduous application, in which we endeavored to inake a part of ourselves some of those lcgal prin- ciples wliich it is thought can be safely entrusted to bluniorsz and having struggled for a grade in Evidence, 2l.llCl having emerged froni out the tangled web of llankruptcy, we were finally allowed to take our places as Seniors. ln dehate and oratory. Zlllil general loquaciousiiess. tl1e class has lllillll- fested superior qualities. Soul nioviiig and eloquent appeals have mingled with fierce llllfl llll1l'l1'lCI'U1,lS attacks upon whatever question w11s nearest at handy evincing a daring audacity in attacking, dissecting and inutilating' s11el1 question u11til the lllC1'l1S thereof were reduced to an antorphous lllll'CCiOQ'll1Z- able 11111ss. Many questions that have perplexed statesinen were easily de- cided and disposed of at tl1e meetings of our august body. i Many features affecting' tl1e personnel of tl1e class will forin tl1e llllClC- ous around wl1icl1 our nieniories will cling XYl'ICll tl1e years have separated 11s from present experiences: when the inind is wont to dwell in l'CiI'0SlJCCllOl1 11pO11 the deeds of vanislied years, and fancy re-enacts tl1e incidents of our school-life, there will reverberate down the l1all of lllClllUl'y the Voice of lien lotld lll planttive supplication: f'l'lease ludge, may 1 11sk 11 illlCS1l1'H1?l' XYQ shall recall the tireless efforts of llell to be S0011 -and heard. XYe shall see bnnth placidly sleeping during qnizz: with a smile now and tl1e11 lxreaking 12 ,5- O 0 40-