University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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m m John D. Fleming Dean of the St tool of Laii The Law School jiraduated its first chiss in 1894. Moses Hallett, Judge of the United States District Court at Denver, was its first dean. Beginning with few students and practically no equipment and no library, it had during the last school year one hundred and sixty-one students in one of the most beautiful buildings on the Campus devoted to its separate use, and a law library in excess of fourteen thousand bound ()Iumes. It has six professors combining the academic and legal training of the best schools with practical experience at the bar. It is a member, and the only member in Colorado, of the Association of American Law Schools, an organization formed in 1901 for the purpose of promoting and maintaining a high standard of legal education. Its students have gone forth to become governors, supreme and district court judges, members of both the national and state legislatures, and to perform in other capacities a high and varied service in this and other States. o L D G ZV-t Wu ' n 1+

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In other parts of the Coloradoax other phases of college life will receive their tribute, — the grace of friendship, the goodly fellowship of kindred spirits, the thrill of athletics, and all the other varied aspects of college activities and associations that must remain an unforgettable joy while life shall last. My few lines, therefore, may well be devoted to emphasizing the thought that our great function is the discovery of men and women to themselves and the fitting of them for the service of mankind. We must strive to d evelop a scholarship that shall rise above superficiality an! routine to the higher realms of independence and initia- tive. We must encourage the hospitable mind that shall open wide its doors to the gains of science and gifts of art . Our students should learn to live as eager heirs of all the ages, profiting by their heritage and striving to pass on a still goodlier heritage to those that follow. And in this immemorial heritage material success will grow strangely small and dull whereas the rarer things like intellectual quality and elevation of soul will be seen in their true light as the great realities, the final measure of the progress of the race. Fred B. R. Hei.lems Dean of the College of Arts and Sfienres. n-i 13

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September 1424 was a period of transition from the old to the ne ' . Wrecking crews soon removed the hist traces of the condemned buildint;s and sheds that had housed the old School of Medicine for so many years. When the doors of the new School opened to stu- dents the latter part of September, 1924, they also opened a new era for medical education in Colorado, and in the Rocky Mountain States, an era full of promise for the future. I he institution has been }:en;rously provided with spacious, modern buildings, and with excellent and elab- orate equipment. What are we going to do with it? W e must train more efficient physicians and nurses, and give to the sick of the State the best of care and treat- ment. If our responsibilities end at this point, the great expenditure of money has not been justified. We must also strive for improved and still more efficient methods of diagnosis and treatment. New and better procedures for preventing disease and suffering must be devised. We must not only be students, teachers and physicians, but we must also be contributors to the sum total of medical knowledge. Maurice H. Rees Dean of the School of Medicine. aceA,c€ A IS