University of Kansas School of Law - Shingle Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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WALTER V. JORDAAN, C. C. I-IOGE, ' RALPH W. SMITH, Assistant. Auditor. Assistant. PUBLICATION BOARD ROBERT E. EVERETT, Edi tor-in-chief. OF LC 3? THE SHINGLE GRACE B. BARNETT, ROBERT E. TROSPER, JAMES VANDAI., Assistant Business Manager. Assistant.

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The Class of tooo. Cn the nones of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, some threcscore ladies and men, seeking the fountain of justice, wended their way up Mt. Oread and found said source of justice and knowledge on the first floor, north, Fraser Hall. Here they eagerly drank in the words of law and equity that poured forth from the lips of Uncle Jimmie. And those words irrigated the tired brains of this assemblage, and started them again in greater activity. This was the beginning of the Class of '00, a' class composed of and taken from every vocation and walk of life, from the congested city, and from the sparsely populated Hshort grass country, from the money centers, and from the corn-fields, from the school-room, and from the 'cattle range, and which in a few years will be shaping the destiny of State and nation. D This class of sixty gentlemen and three ladies has grown in two years, not only in the Law, but in size to near fourscore and ten. Its growth has not been without its loss, for of the number enrolled during the first half-year of its existence nearly twenty have severed their connection with the class. The first four months of the Junior year were uneventful. Prof. Brownell, having been elected County Attorney of Douglas County, resigned from the Faculty, and his chair was filled by Dr. YV. L. Burdick, of the Yale Law School. lVith his coming also came the case book, and its toil and terror to the class. It was about this time that the course was raised from two years to three years, and a higher degree of admission requirements was established, all due to the earnest and persistent efforts of the Dean, Prof. Green. As a result the class this year has been obliged to take much extra work heretofore not required. The class has been fortunate in selecting its officers. The first year RobertJLanders acted as President, with Miss Margaret Cas- ey as Secretary, and made for themselves an enviable record as able officials. At the be- ginning of the Senior year a number entered the race for President to succeed Mr. Lan- ders, who declined to serve longer. After a spirited and closely contested race and sev- eral meetings, Mr. J. A. Anderson was elected President and Miss Caseyreelected Secretary. On the athletic field, in every department of sport, football, basketball, baseball, and track, the class has been 'well represented, having in each case the guiding hand in the contests and games. On the gridiron in the 'fnever-defeated, ever victoriousv eleven of 399, were XVilcoX, Hess, Parent, Cates, Smith QT. DJ, and lVoodward, with P. S. Elliott, manager, whileYVilcoX is the captain selected to lead the team of 700 to victory. In basketball Hess was a strong member of last year's team, and for his good work was made captain, but resigned later. Par- ent, Carroll, and Moore represented the class in the diamond, Parent being chosen captain of the 'Varsity nine for this spring, and Cates is captain of the track team. Last year during the inter-class games, this class carried off the pennant. After badly defeating the Senior Laws and Phar- mics, the team was matched against the Senior Arts, for the final game, but, the Arts. refusing to play, the game went to the Laws by default. XVhen the time came this year to make arrangements for the Annual, the Arts asked the Laws to join them, but, as the Law Class was as large as the Senior Arts, they asked a share in the management as well as on the editorial staff. This the Arts refused, and the Laws decided to go it alone, and they have made a success of it, as is well at- tested by this book, the Kansas University, f'Shingle.v I ,-3 5...

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Class Biography. GRACE BUCHANAN BARNETT Was born at Bolton, Mo., December 21, 1875. She came to Kansas to mix in politics and assist the down-trodden women of the Sunflower State. This resolution came to her very young, so she was but a child when she left Missouri. After attending the Goodland High School, Miss Barnett was for six years a school Hmarmf' Finding this the sure road to old-maidism, she resolved to lead a better and higher life, and to-day we find her one of the three Graces Cladiesl in the Senior Law Class of 1900. Besides being well versed in legal lore, Miss Bar- nett has talent in a literary way, and the editor here wishes to say that much is due this lady as- sistant for the success of The Shingle. Miss Bar- nett will become the senior member of the law firm of Barnett Ka Barnett, and will practice at Good- land, Kansas. Who the junior member of the part- nership will be she does not state, but we predict for the firm success in future years. O O I CHARLES CRAVEN HOGE Was born March 15, 1872, near Shawnee, this State, and was raised and lived on a farm until the age of seventeen years, when his parents removed to Olathe. He passed successfully through the com- mon schools and the Olathe High School. After graduating, he spent one year in the Beggs Acad- emy at Olathe. Following this he took a commer- cial course in the Spalding Commercial College, Kansas City, completing his course in 1892. He soon found a position with the Johnson County Co- operative Association, one of the largest mercantile establishments in eastern Kansas, where he rose to be the foreman in his department. Resigning his position in 1896, he took a vacation and spent sev- eral months in different parts of Old Mexico. Upon returning fronrhis pleasure trip, he opened a gen- eral merchandise store, and dealt in grain at Bucy- rus, Miami County. At the beginning of the Leedy administration in 1897, Mr. Hoge was appointed bond clerk under D. H. Hefflebower, State Treasurer, which position he filled with honor to himself, to the administration, and to the State. After the close of his 'official career in 1899, he became the managing editor of the Olathe Tribune, the leading Populist paper in Johnson County. Resigning this after three months' trial, he entered the Law School, and has been a faithful worker since. While here he has become very prominent in University affairs. His powers of speech, as displayed in stumping the State for Leedy in 1898, made him recognized as an orator, and he was chosen President of the Orator- ical Society, and was chosen an alternate for the Kansas-Missouri debate for this year. He was a member of the Kansas University Glee Club, which made a successful tour of the State the past winter, and is now auditor and member of the Board of Directors of The Shingle. I O O ROBERT ELIJAH TROSPER Was born May 5, 1856, in Nodaway County, Mis- souri. In 1859 he came to Kansas, locating in Mar- shall County, which place he has since made his home. He received his early education in the pub- lic schools and at the State Agricultural College at Manhattan. He has engaged extensively in bus- iness, meeting with exceptional success, and al- though pursued at times by that malignant, envious spirit with which it is the lot of successful men to contend, each encounter has but created strength, and he has grown fat and jolly over these small troubles. Mr. Trosper has lived in a log cabin, has hoed corn, has seen the buffalo, the coyote, the grasshopper, and the Kansas cyclone, but he has never lost sight of the noble ambition to become a graduate of the,Kansas University Law School, and has wisely chosen to graduate with the Class of 1900. He is recognized as an able speaker, and the faith his classmates have in his integrity and busi- ness ability was shown by his election as business manager of the Law Year Book. It is a fact worthy of mention, that at the same time that Mr. Trosper graduates from the Law School, his son, Robert E., Jr., graduates from the Art Department of Kansas State University. ' V I O O' ' ROBERT E. EVERETT Was born November 21, 1874, at Pleasanton, Kan- sas. In '92 he graduated from the Pleasanton High School, and coming to Lawrence that year, attended and graduated from the Art Department of Kansas University. From that time until '99 he followed journalism as a. profession, meeting with gratifying success.- Since entering the Law School, Mr. Ever- ett has had ample opportunity to keep uphis jour- nalistic work, as he has been connected with the various University publications. He was unani- mously chosen editor-in-chief of the Kansas Uni- versity Shinglef' He is a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. He has never taught school, and has nobly reso-lved never to do so, no matter how sorely tempted. Although Mr. Everett has not increased in stature to a very great extent, he has increased in wisdom, and in the future, if any of us shall chance to meet a small man with a merry twinkle in his off eye, pointed to by the admiring natives as Little, but oh my! we will rub our glasses, take a- second look, and remark: Well, I guess yes! That is Bob Everett, the wit, poet, and caricaturist of the Law Class of 1900.7 Mr. Everett will com- bine the professions of law and journalism. A G. B. O O 0 WALTER V. JORDAAN, Born at Larned, Kansas, October 15, 1879. Grad- uated from the Larned High School with the Class of '98. Entered Kansas University Law School in the fall of 1898. An associate editor of the Kansas University Shingle Member of Sigma Chi and Phi Delta Phi fraternities. 0 0 0 ' , JAMES VANDAL V Was born in South Dakota in the year 1876, August 26th. The blood of the noble red man fiows in his veins, and he evidences its presence by his artistic temperament and his love for nature. He attended the Mission School of his native State, and after- wards, in 1894, Haskell Institute, at Lawrence. He completed the normal course of the latter institu- tion in 1898, and the same year entered Kansas State University. He says that he will practice law and starve, but this is one of Jim's jokes, and we have no doubt that his teepee will always be filled with the best that a lawyer deserves. O O O RALPH W. SMITH Was born September 28, 1874, on a farm, near Ross- ville, Ill. Together with riding the cultlvator and driving in the ducks at night, he managed to com- plete the course of studyn as found in a district school, and in the fall of '90 entered the high school -371