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

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Literary and Quasi-Literary. The 'Law School atfords abundance of op- portunities for the would-be lawyer to exer- cise and regulate his powers of speech and pleading, and it is well that it is thus, as no one has more occasion for different kinds of talks on various topics and in many divers places than has the lawyer. He needs, above everything else, to cultivate thought, expres- sion, and address. The various clubs and societies where he may receive these prac- tical qualities, are the Kent Club, moot court, practice and pleading courrt, the elocution de- bating clubs, and the Adelphic. The Kent Club, the literary society of the Law School, was organized about the time the Department of Law was made a part of the University. It has come down through these many years with varying degrees of success, but it is now firmly established, and has become one of the fixtures of the school. The club meets Friday afternoons, and not only discusses legal and current topics, but also renders a general literary programme. Here are developed the Laws who repre- sent the University in the interstate debates. All students of the Law School, are members of the Kent Club, and the only requisite for active membership is attendance art the regu- lar meetings. During the first year the Juniors are re- quired to take Elocution and Oratory. One of the requirements as outlined for the first half-year is the organization of debating clubs of not more than twelve members each. These clubs meet once a week, and render a general literary programme, but make de- bating and original talks a specialty. Since the membership in each club is limited, every one is on the programme for something each Week. Another aid in enabling to tl1e Juniors to lay away their swaddling-clothes and reach the age capable to make valid contracts for more than necessaries, is the moot court work, under the supervision of Dean Green and Prof. Higgins. This court meets twice a week, and at each session a statement of facts is alleged and the legal effect is ar- gued, the argument being based on the law as found in the text-books, and decisions of the courts as found in the reports. Each case has four lawyers, two on each side, and the experience and practice in looking up cases and the law upon different questions is verv valuable. The Seniors are haunted in their dreams by visions of legal blanks, filled and untilled. For them a practice and pleading court is provided, presided over by Dr. Burdick. The Iirst half-year the course consists of lectures by the county ofiicers and practicing attor- neys well learned in the profession, upon the duties and manner of procedure in their re- spective ofHces, and the mode of procedure in carrying a case through the Justice of the Peace Court, and up to the State Supreme Court. The second half of the year is spent upon the various legal blanks in use in the State, and their various requ'iremen't's and legal effect are discussed. During the clos- ing weeks of the school year an actual case is prepared for the criminal docket, is filed, and a jury summoned. All the various steps and pleadings are gone through with, as in actual practice, and the Code and usual rules. gov- erning the proceedings in the District Courts

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are followed as to matters of law and fact. Lastly, but not least, is the Adelphic Lit- erary Society. This is not a Law School or- ganization, but as the Laws dominate and have kept it alive, it may very properly be classed as a quasi-legal institution. The Adelphic had its beginning during the time when literary societies were important fact- ors in the University life, a time so long in the past that the 'fmemory of man runneth not to the contrary. This society has sur- vived the attacks and rebulfs of these inter- vening years-a 'reminder of those halcyon days when to be at member of a literary so- ciety Was an honor. Perhaps the credit for its continued existence and its rehabilitation each year is due 'to the Law School more than any other department. The society meets every Friday evening in Fraser Hall, and has a large membership and attendance. Ralph Smith. .sdfialja X fl J dl N Tl. if X , U m lv! up . k . ,, .T ' 'M I '41 N 2 gy f f V , lil' r- J ff d fl l XX K ., .': ',, X ,pl i-1!lf'1w I 'hp' 'If -f lfffvf 5 1 Q ffff 'lf ' - 'U elf -A xl , X l ' L '4 iff W4 KX anti U 4 x ' gg, -lg if Q 'f' ..-:W H- gp 31-' :Q- -60.-