National University - Docket Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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LESLIE C. GARNETT Chancellor Gi D(DI OI3CoRn 0IOr s '

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Chancellor ' s Message T HE graduation of the Class of 1939 marks the end of the Seventieth year of National University. Your Alma Mater has reached the Biblical age of three score years and ten. The student body has been, in the main, those who were willing to sacrifice “their hours of ease, their instants of repose, their inns of rest” and the financial fruits of their own toil and labor in order to gratify their ambition to know the law and the reason thereof. Opportunities to gratify such an ambition are being greatly — and it may be reasonably argued, unduly — circumscribed. The back- ground and history of the University, however, and the character, thoroughness and practicability of its courses guarantee that the sphere of its usefulness will not be destroyed and it will survive the present tendency to limit the right or privilege of deserving youth to aspire to practice law. No man knows a great deal, even after a lifetime of intensive study and wide experience, but the Class of 1939 has had a wise guidance from a faculty of lawyers and Judges whose knowledge of the principles of the law is supplemented by the indispensable ex- perience of the courtroom and counsel table in the practical appli- cation of legal principles to the manifold problems of life. Equipped with this training you have the ability to understand and your future in the law lies in your own hands. Apply to the proble ms of the lawyer the same sacrifice and courage you have displayed in attaining your degrees and your success will be assured. With all good wishes, I bid you Godspeed. Leslie C. Garnett 7-1 IXDIPI S5R£foIOr

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Dean’s JWessage T HE Law School of the National University celebrates this year the seventietli anniversary of its founding, and this makes all the more memorable everything associated with the gradu- ation of the institution’s 1939 class. In the history of the University, the class of 1939 will always stand out because of the period the year marks. I am confident that this class will also be remembered because of the achievements of its members, men and women, in their chosen profession. While the responsibilities of the legal profession have increased with the years, it is equally true that the opportunities are greater for those who are properly equipped. The aim of National University has always been to aid deserving young men and women to enter the ranks of a dignified profession upon the basis of individual merit and adequate prepar- ation. In this mission the institution will continue, and in this spirit I hid the class of 1939 good-bye, with the knowledge, how- ever, that we do not part, hut, rather, enter into a new relationship, that of fellow-alumni and fellow-craftsmen, with an eye single to upholding the best traditions of a great calling and a great insti- tution. Dr. Charles Pergler H I OTDISC X4D6IOX