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

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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.-

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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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journalistic. In the fall of 1894 the then Senior Class cf but forty-seven members were seized with the desire to herald abroad the fame of their beloved institution, and being of an adver- tising turn of mind, they resolved to pub- lish a monthly journal under the name of the Kansas Lawyer. XV hen the Kansas Lawyer was started, there were sages and prophets who predicted for it a short career, and when it was launched on the turbulent waves of life. the world laughed and said: tfOh, you foolish builders! it can never survive. The.storms it must encounter will cast it upon the hid- den shoals. Venture not or all will be lost. But, undaunted by reproach, it darted into the waters of experience. XVinds blew, waves dashed, but how fearless it rode! for the storms came but from the mouths of the Arts and the waves they caused to dash were but the light, foamy spray of an eifervescent jealousy. y Greater intercst is continually being mani- fested in the Lawyer, both by the staff and by the members of the bar. The great aim of the staff is to secure contributions from men of prominence and authority in the legal profession. Among those who have aided ,us in this way are the names of Judge C. L. Dobson, of Kansas City, Mo., E. D. Ken- na, of Chicago, Ill., Stephen H. Allen, ex- Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court, Henry C. Caldwell, United States Circuit Judge, of Little Rock, Ark.5 and Associate Justice David J. Brewer, of XVashington, D. C. This year the staff-officers are as follows: Editor-in-Chief: Otto Sump. Assita-nt : Lorne E. Gartley. Associate Editors : J. A. Overlander, R. E. Everett J. H. Tolan, L. M. Gensman. 7 Local Editors: E. P. Rochester, J. H. McGraw. Treasurer: Margaret E. Casey. ' Business M aaagers: Otto Sump, Acting, Hale R. Hamilton Owing to circumstances, the writer has been compelled to assume the duties of busi- ness manager as well as those of editor-in- chief. It has been a most burdensome duty to issue the ten numbers, involving much time and work, but we feel more than repaid by the experiencewe have gained. But the time has now come when we must consign the management of the Lawyer to the hands of anotherg when, after two years of pleas- ant association, the first year as assistant editor, and this year in the present capacity, we must bid it adieu. Otto Sump, Editor-in-Chief. I HE -vt. - if , - L ' ' gf T 3... hw KANSAS M ' -we-+ LAWYER , . I 4 'MMU Jllllllll PIIILIINIHJI Ill Illllldf nr Dil Kllll! Ill IID IIIIYIIIIYY UI-IDNMI.. , L va novnsu. mn. no. s. -1 CIJNTENTS. -1 N... :ummm ' ' tau N-mm nu.. Y mm- -nl n.u..n hm-mr-nn. z. umm. I Nam... mn.. m x. u nw-nz. :-mu. - - mmm-v-n. A vu..-1.-K - - - - - 1 mmm-.-n.z zv-.1 . - - - rm v.. num-L nz-wg - - - nm. -.v nw. .nf .vm-nu u-111 c can-ur. - - A mm., rn - - - - - iilfrikk rulkllnro Aonvllu. v-mmm umm.. 'Ili IIIIIIIIPIIUI, S11 ' nn num. IWIIICL KADIIIL