National University - Docket Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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HONORABLE CHARLES F. CARUSI, DEAN.

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Page 18 THE DOCKET 192 5 all great lights in their chosen profession and men upon whom we may look with pride and whose lives and deeds may well be emulated by the present and future generations of legists. The faculty increases in size from year to year and now numbers forty. It ranks well indeed, with the best in the land. It is made up of learned judges and successful practicing attorneys who are enabled to approach the task of instructing equipped with an intimate personal knowledge and contact with the law as it is administered in the courts of the land, thereby breathing the atmosphere of life and reality into sub- jects which must otherwise amount to mere theoretical and abstract science, cold and devoid of interest. During the more than half century of its existence the school has ceaselessly labored to dispense education, principally legal, of the highest order, practical in nature and effective in the support of those glorious principles of justice and equity upon which this wonderful Country of ours is founded, and without which it must ultimately sink into the ob- livion which already shrouds the fading memories of other countries, once as proud as ours, but which failed to realize that the moment progress ceases disintegration must surely begin. The curriculum covers practically every phase of both substantive and adjective law; and the case, text and lecture methods of instruction are used with that care of selection best calculated to develop the re- sourcefulness and mental processes of the learner. A large number of the matriculants are employed by the Government of the United States. They are self-supporting and self-reliant. They are noticeably more ma- ture than the student body of the average school and association with people of this earnest and ambitious type is in itself an inspiration, an encouragement, and a valuable means of broadening one’s human experi- ence, which is by no means the least of the advantages enjoyed by our classmen. Approximately 5,000 have been graduated from the law school dur- ing the past fifty-six years of National University’s existence, and among them are many who have achieved distinction at the bar; others have become judges of national reputation, and a number are serving in the Congress of the United States. More might well be said in commendation of the Alma Mater, but in closing, it is believed sufficient to say that we, of the graduating class of 1925, consider it a privilege to know that the foundation stones of our legal training were laid in the halls of National University, and we shall take pride and pleasure in carrying on and emulating the work of the illustrious men who have been associated with the University before us. It shall be our endeavor always to elevate the profession and always to foster and improve those mental and moral qualities which make for suc- cess and which command the world’s respect and admiration, thereby remaining true to the tradition of the noble and learned calling which has been our choice.

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“A successful man is one who has tried, not cried ; who has worked, not dodged ; who has shouldered responsibility, not evaded it; who has gotten under the burden, not merely stood off, looking on, giving advice and philo- sophizing on the situaton.” —ELBERT HUBBARD