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

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HARVEY D. TAYLOR. RUFUS BURRUS .... HAROLD C. STOA, .. JAMES H. ANDERSON. EDGAR E. ADAMS. .. IRVIN YVALLS .... LOUISE SCHUTTE.. . . SUSAN LIANDEL ..,. JENNIE ROSENBERG. . . . .Associate Editor Business Manager .Advertising Manager .Associate Adv. Mgr. ....,Literav'y Editor ....Society Editor ... .Local Editor ... .... Art Editor Editor JUNIOR PANDEX COMMITTEE Ivm F SWEENEY ROY L. VICKREY RAY G. COWAN FRESHMAN PANDEX COMMITTEE ISAUORE RICH THOMAS J. BOMAR JAMES BARNES NALL, JR. Page ll

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The Kansas City School J Law CBy Elmer N. Powell.J The Kansas City School of Law received its Charter in 1895 and has grown steadily since its foundation until it has taken rank among the best Law Schools of the country. Dating from the organization of this institution, the students have been afforded an opportunity to combine the work of the school with that of the office, so that both the practical and theoretical parts of a legal education may progress together, they are at the same time given the opportunity to earn a livelihood while acquiring a profession. The system employed here possesses a further advantage not given to most law schools, namelyg that of employing the time and talents of instruc- tors and lecturers engaged in the actual practice of the law. The greatest advantage of a law school, as pointed out by Justice Brewer, is that its students have the benefit of instruction under leaders of the Bar and Judges who could not under any other plan devote their time or their talents to the work of legal instruction. The first years of its existence, the students were confined to Kansas City and its immediate vicinity. In later years, the school has drawn students from many different states and some of our twelve hundred graduates have hailed from other countries. Beginning with the school year September, 1899, there was added to the curriculum a postgraduate course of one year, but it was not found timely and did not meet with particular favorg it was not continued. The Kansas City School of Law was founded as a lawyers' school and has always remained true to its traditions. The first year there were enrolled fifty-seven students and twenty- seven thereof graduated in the first class, 1897. With the increase in the student body removals of quarters have been made necessary twice. First, from the New York Life Building quarters over to the second floor of the Ridge Building and eleven years ago to the more spacious quarters on the fifth floor of the Nonquitt Building. Now, another expansion is made necessary, so that beginning with the school year, 1921-22, the entire fifth floor of the Nonquitt Building will be required, a term lease having al- ready been entered into covering this entire floor. . To meet the growing demands for a higher standard in the Law School and legal education generally, the course was extended in 1902 from two to a three years' course. And now, the Faculty has arranged for a course of four years, that a standard of scholarship shall be maintained in the Kansas City School of Law equal or superior to that of any Law School in the United States. The Faculty and all other friends of the School point with pride to the distinguished careers of a great number of our alumni. It may be of Page 13