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

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 A T THE beginning of my administration as President of Temple University I am glad to send a word of greeting to the Law School. The Law School has had such a long and splendid record that in speaking of the work of Temple University I am compelled to sing its praises. Its future is particularly bright. The forward step which we are now planning for all departments of the University includes new quarters and new facilities for the Law School; and surely the largest Law School in the state with such a splendid record and gratifying reputation is deserving of equipment commensurate with the work that is being accomplished. In making this new Law School building a reality, we are counting on the loyal support of our Law Alumni. We want you to “talk Temple” that its fair name and fine achievements may be known. We want you to help as givers and workers, that your loyalty may be demonstrated. You who are this year leaving this institution may rest assured that the reputation of your Alma Mater will be preserved and improved with the coming years. But see to it that you also guard with jealousy your own reputation. Perhaps no profession tests a man's character so frequently as the law. To gain a temporary advantage, do not be trapped into a doubtful expedient. Hold to the unimpeachable line of rectitude and success will reward you. Wishing you God speed and happiness, as well as success in your profession. I am. Very sincerely yours, CHAS. E. BEURY.

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 u££eU Contoell By I)h. Laura II. Carnei.i. Associate President of Temple University RUSSELL H. CONWKLL was born on February 15, 1843, among the bills of Western Massachusetts, where every prospect pleases, but where money was so scarce that he had to earn all that be needed for an education beyond that he got in the little red school house about a mile from his home. He taught music, waited on table, did all sorts of things to carry himself through Wilbraham Academy and Yale University. The Civil War interrupted his college course, he volunteering in the beginning and serving to the end. His New England friends will always know him as Colonel Conwell. In camp he read law and after the war was over he attended the Albany Law School, which granted him its diploma. While studying law he worked as a reporter first on the “Poston Traveler,'' and then on the New York Herald. While with the Poston Traveler’' he was sent on a trip around the world, at that lime a great undertaking. It was to him a university education because he was alive to every scene, to every condition with which he came in contact. After serving a valuable apprenticeship in the newspaper world, and having secured his diploma with the right to practice law, lie opened a law office in Boston, where he built up a successful practice. But the hills had given him a great gift, a marvelous voice that could control the hearts of men. When a very young boy he was one day “teaming from his father’s village store to Huntington, a town eight miles away. He had to do this very often. There were no motor trucks and the way back was all up hill so that it was the better part of a day’s journey. This morning as lie went down the mountain he was practicing a speech he was to make in their debating society. He came to the quotation, “Woe unto you, Cliorazin. His oratory was so effective that the old horse “whoaed instantly and the young orator went over the horse’s back into the ditch striking a stone, .lust at the edge of his hair the scar could be seen to the last day of his life. As a result of this episode lie always defined oratory as effective speech. He had this gift of oratory and the young lawyer began to make speeches and deliver lectures. He taught a great Bible Class in Fremont Temple and here the feeling grew that he must go out as a preacher and a teacher. He studied theology in the Newton Theological Seminary, still a lawyer, but now also a lecturer and a teacher. u