National University - Docket Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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THE 1937 DOCKET Qui Bene Distinguit, Bene Docet T o present Godfrey L. Munter, A. Ph., L.L.B., L.L.M., mem- ber of the bar of the District of Columbia, Virginia, and California, Professor of Sales, Extraordinary Legal Reme- dies, and Practice and Procedure at National University, is to cre- ate an impression of austere dignity which, in reality, he makes every effort to dispel. A toppler of countless pedestals, it is characteristic that his own is first to fall. In declining to stand upon degrees and position, he unwittingly emphasizes rather than obscures the attributes through which that position was attained. As an instructor, Godfrey Munter shows himself intensely alive, keen and practical. He strips the law of the cloak of mysti- cism and reveals it a thing of human contrivance, based upon hu- man experience, but operated by men according to their several lights. In demonstrating the operation of the machinery of the law, he points out its weaknesses and its strength, sparing neither ab- stract doctrine nor human components. His are no reform lectures, however, but a pointing out of those features of our judicial system which might otherwise be learned by costly experience a service too often overlooked in ex- pounding dogmatic principles. The substantive laws receive due attention as, restlessly pac- ing the rostrum, he unleashes a powerful voice and emphasizes im- portant points with deliberately execrable diction, illustrating them with well chosen anecdotes. Ever interesting, he gives one the driest law in Munter’s inimitable fashion; and to those who are skeptical that learning is accelerated when facts are entertainingly presented, his courses are a complete answer. Ask any Munter student the fundamental principle of titles and the smiling reply will be, “You can not give what you haven’t got!”

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY GODFREY L. MUNTER