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A HISTORIC REVIEW OF KANSAS CITY SCI-IOOI. OF LAW By ELMER N. Powett A few men met in an informal way in the law ofhces of one of their numbers in the fall of 1893. for the purpose of studying law together. Later this group took form as an organized body. The first officers elected were: Elmer N. Powell, president, Edward D. Ellison, vicefpresident, J. C. Swift, secretary, Williziiii Borland fdeceasedj, treasurer, Rees Turpin, Chief justiceg and United States Commissioner C. A. Peabody, Associate Jusmilihe older and more staid members of the profession became ultimately interested in thisprojectgand on August 27, 1895, the circuit court of jackson County granted our petition for a pro forma decree creating the Kansas City School of Law as an entity, it was destined to become an institution that would survive the dozen or so privately owned medical colleges, which were not uncommon here in those days. A judge Francis M. Black, who had returned to Kansas City after serving a 1Ofyear term as Judge of the State Supreme Court, was made president of the institution. Oliver H. Dean and judge Edward L. Scarritt were elected vicefpresidents, Mr. Borland was elected dean, Mr. Powell was created secretary and Mr. Ellison elected to the office of treasurer. Mr. Powell and Mr. Ellison are today the last of the Mohicansf' the only surviving members of the founders and first staffofofficers of the school continuing active in this law school as lecturers and members of the Executive Board. Mr. Ellison now is dean and Mr, Powell is secretary and treasurer. The first faculty of the school also was comprised of Sanford B. Ladd, now president emeritus, James H. Harkless, now a post graduate lecturerg the late John W. Snyder and Robert J. Ingraham, at one time city counselor. The Kansas City School of Law has graduated a total of 2,130 students with degrees of LL, B. and has conferred seventyffour degrees of Master of Laws. The alumni have gone to many quarters of the globe and at the present time grace high posts of honor on the bench, in legislatures, mayoralty seats, prosecuting attorneyships and other high offices in the professional and business world. The first graduating class numbered thirtyfseven proud students. The idea upon which the law school was founded was the plan for students to be in touch with practising members of the profession, through leaders of the bar. All of these lecturers and instructors were engaged in the active practice oflaw or serving on the bench so that practical and theoretical knowledge progressed together. This general scheme is followed even to this day of modern adaptation of the principles of legal learning. During its existence, approaching forty years, the Kansas City School of Law never has been favored with an endowment of any character whatever. The capital from the beginning has consisted alone in its intellectual labor and as often stated by the late Honor' able Oliver H. Dean, The good will of its alumni. The pillars of its strength are found, indeed, in the alumni, and in the public confidence built up year by year, and these have proven more enduring than brick and mortar, The principle motive, and that which has guided its destinies at all times, has been the establishment ofa center of professional learning in Kansas City, with its chief concern to advance and elevate legal education and with a like promotion of legal ethics in all its training. The courses of lectures were strengthened from time to time and in 1920 a four year course was instituted, with the final requirement in 1933 of two years of college work as a condition of matriculation. That forward step, with the election ofjudge Merrill E. Otis, as president, was aptly stated by Hon. A. L. Berger asa red letter' day in our history. From a sinking fund created from year to year, a sum sufficient was accumlated to ac' quire in 1926 the lot at 913 Baltimore Avenue, on which our splendid new law building was erected. This spacious law building with its exceptionally fine library and appoint' ments for public speaking, joint debates and moot court work stands as an enduring monument to the public spirit, the consecrated devotion of our faculty, to our splendid alumni and to the host of other friends of the Kansas City School of Law. l12l
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