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

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Needs of the Law School. Every lawyer or would-be lawyer, from the ablest jurist to the youngest student who visits the University, notes the needs of the Kansas Law School. From its establish- ment it has been a struggle to get: Hrst, ap- propriations, second, lecturers, third, room, and worst of all, a sufficient library. Per- haps you don't know it, but if NUncle Jim- mief' should remove his own private library, which he has so generously donated to the use of the students, there would hardly be books enough left to make even a 4'starter towards a law library. ' The Kansas Law School needs room, and needs it badly. It has always been kicked around from pillar to postf' Wie need a building, we need a libra.ry, and we need more liberal trea.tment. The time is coming when the Law School will get what it needs and wants. The future statesmen and poli- ticians of Kansas will number many more who have a f'LL.B. subscribed to their names, acquired from the Kansas Law School. YVhat we need we are going to have, and it can be depended upon. T'he following extracts are taken from re- port of the Committee on Legal Education and S-tate University Law School, read be- fore and adopted by the Kansas State Bar Association at Topeka, January 30, 1900, by L. H. Perkins, of Lawrence, Kas.. chairman: Your committee is greatly pleased to re- port that the school enters this year upon a new era, having added a third year to the course. The Junior Class which has now en- tered for the three-years course is one of the largest in the history of the school, and it is plain tha.t with three classes instead of two, as heretofore, the attendance is likely to in- crease from about one hundred and iifty to two hundred and twenty-five, without count- ing the regular annual increase. Hence, with- in the next three ye-ars, quarters will have to be provided for about two hundred and fifty students. The quarters in Fraser Hall are who-lly inadequate for the present attend- ance, and the State must suitably house this great and growing school. The second recommendation of your com- mittee is that the next building at the Uni- versity be for the Law School, and that the next Legislature appropriate 380,000 for such building and equipment. 'fYour committee found but one set of Kansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Reports, and but one copy of the last edition of the General Statutes. Imagine one hun- dred and fifty lawyers trying to consult one book! It is therefore recommended that the Executive Committee deposit with the Law School four complete sets of Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Reports, and four copies of the General Statutes. fflt is also recommended that the members of this association urge their representatives in the Legislature to make a separate and distinct appropriation of 310,000 for the library of the Law School, which is wholly inadequate and bears no sort of comparison with the libraries of first-class law schools. -JG 49 -39 'JP -It ' 59 'X' if ik 41- -K -k The time has come when there is no longer any rivalry between the country law office and the State University Law School. It would be well for the Law to require at least three years' study before admission to the bar, but whether it does or no, the Law School will continue to grow and overflow with ambitious young men and women, who will refuse to be persuaded that urbanity and scholarship and culture count for noth- ing among the attainments of a successful lawyer. , f'The value and work of the Law School is no longer to be tested by numbers. It can make its standard equal to the highest and still have numbers enough. 'Let us give it all possible countenance, encouragement and support, and in the coming years these halls will shine with its light, and it will repay tenfold honors to the State Bar Association of Kansas. - ifiiiarxfw - - r fx . . ,figiza -Q ,X : A, r ag, f , l J iw QSQSSQYNRSTN ii Q X f F- L- 2 Nl i f f sv . -7e- '

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Editorial. , The Shinglel, is out, anxious inquirer. The last page has been written, the last stick of type has been set, and this book, a new venture for theffiansas Law School, has been given to the world. The editors have not aimed to make it a text-book on any subject. They have, therefore, made no use of many legal articles which might have Hlled up its pages. Believing that its patrons wished for a souvenir that would represent the lighter side of life, we have so tried in our book to paint it. The advent of The Shingle is coincident with the dawn of a new era for the Law School, as well as the closing of a century for the world. As the herald of such The Shinglev goes forth. May it ever be an ob- ject of remembrance to every member of the C915 Class of 1900, to call up pleasant memories to them in after years. May it carry a message to those of a devoted alumni who yet rever- ence this institution. Its spirit is not one of anta.gonisn1, but a desire to chronicle the fruits of a worthy past. P Should there be other f'Shingles in the years to come, the Class of 1900 will extend to them a welcoming hand, and give them places on their shelves. Our 'task is Iinished. The work is submit- ted to' your examination. VVe trust to the intelligence of our rea.ders to appreciate its merits, upon which every work must stand or fall. If they derive as much pleasure from it as the board has, the labor will not have been in vain. ' R. E. Everett. Xa Veg - 2--fx -- mis? - . - it 6 - bag NNN l 'Y 66 px -gps FXS --::,,,- X.5.5 xsf xgg.,-. 'lx S6 r , -?'4'4ba 'Au , ' , ai: tl W lf'-: Q Q 1 , iv QI, K4 ' N 7 0 K we is S ' 1 , . 62, 0 lx' ,a ., 2' 5--1, 9 X - 5 N iff C ,Sf f z 1 ffrff N 65 57 gift L, if get M 56 , F RQ' ix lf ,-- 4 W, . X X Q X 3 27 f X I 1 X X X fx , r lu 3 4 ' 2' : ll A X iff, Qx . -,252 W KT ' Q5 . -:g oa l ,, I ,ln .L-egg:-::.--. , M all -- . '..f lwmaief I, - - I- ff 3' ' J :n ' Lf.. if - IEW ' ' j 'W , - '.,:u:3 ' , ffmm, -in W..-., . 4.-lil- 'g1 't 5g::,T' --J' ' ....u,55g'-- .2 M' ?'Ps... Q.--' almaim H- ill 1.g1...f- - :HALL OLD WINDMILL. Where our lawyers get inspiration for oratorical efforts.

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