Temple University School of Law - Restatement Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Clastf of 1926: YOU are leaving the University in which you have spent four years in preparation for your life calling. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, a very wise old judge, has remarked that ‘‘a university is a place from which men start for the Eternal City.” He has also said that “every calling is great when greatly pursued.” During the years spent in the university you have gained some knowledge of the law, but not sufficient to he a life-long equipment. Because you are leaving this law school you are not to assume that you have learned all the law. The longer one lives the more he finds to learn, and a life well spent will include a large amount of study. Two things you will need in order to he even a moderate success in your calling. The one is industry, the other, honesty. Industry is important. A lazy man is rarely a success, however brilliant he may be, while a man who is industrious may achieve fair success even though not so well gifted as his more brilliant hut less industrious rival. The most important part, however, of your equipment will be honesty which includes honesty in thought, in word and act. Honesty in thought is essential to honesty in word or act, for as one thinks, so he generally speaks and acts. To industry and honesty you should daily add a cheerful and a pleasant smile for those whom you meet. Do not consider that your calling is small or mean or merely a means of making money. Do not try to charge your clients all their business will bear. Ask for your service only what your service is honestly worth. Keep ever in mind that the Law is a great profession to he greatly pursued and that greatness excludes petty or “shyster” method ; of practice. Remember that you will have entrusted to you to he kept spotless the traditions of nearly a thousand years of the legal profession, and that it is in your power for your day at least to mar or keep them uninjured if not increased in glory. Francis Chapman. 6

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Jforetoorb ('KING the guidance of precedent that might have been laid down by former classes, the task of the Kditorial Staff of “Tiib Docket” in preparing this permanent chronicle of the activities and personnel of the 1926 “Sesqui-Centennial” (’-lass has been no small one. Many difficulties and obstacles have been encountered and overcome, and we cannot help but feel a glow of satisfaction at the thought that for the first time in the history of the Law School a period of more than thirty years it fell to the 192(5 Class to essay the publication of an individual record book. Because of the gap of years that has intervened since the first class was graduated in 1901, it has been attempted to incorporate within the pages of this “Docket” matters of interest relating to the alumni of even the very earliest years of the School. To furnish a comprehensive and proper background, a biography of our beloved Founder has been written; a history of the Law School has been prepared; and a list compiled of the names of those among our graduates who have bestowed honor and fame upon their Alma Mater by the assumption of positions of public trust, importance and respect throughout the country. A photograph of the present faculty of the Law School, the first group faculty picture since the Law School’s inception, and posed especially for “The Docket, will he found, together with photographs of those of our instructors who. since teaching us, have withdrawn from the faculty. Further to insure the completeness of our archives, invitations to participate were extended to those of our number who labored with us through the earlier years, but who, because of the engrossments of active law practice or for other reasons, found it necessary to take their farewell prior to graduation. Nor has fitting commemorative remembrance been overlooked of those two classmates of ours whom the Almighty, in His own wisdom, called to Himself. Perusal of the publication will disclose our other efforts to insure the greatest possible value of “The Docket,” so that further detailed mention will serve no useful purpose. Suffice it to say that the most careful scrutiny that time and circumstance permitted has been exercised with this sole purpose and hope in mind: that “The Docket” may serve as a permanent and accurate reminder of the happy and fruitful years spent at the Law School, and that it may he a constant source, not alone of interest, and, it is hoped, entertainment, but as well of assistance and inspiration. That each possessor may reflect credit and honor upon himself, upon the legal profession, upon his Alma Mater and upon this, the Sesqui-Centennial Class, is the sincere wish of The Editor.