University of Maryland School of Pharmacy - Terra Mariae Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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ffi Our Energetic Business Manager. R. AUGUSTUS C. BINSWANGER was educated in the public schools of Baltimore City. He attended the Baltimore City College for three years, and left in his sophomore year to prepare for the Johns Hopkins University. He was graduated at the Johns Hopkins in 1896 with the degree of bachelor of arts. Mr. Binswanger next took up the study of the law. and was graduated at the University of Maryland, School of Law. in June. 1899. He has been very prominent in Republican politics in the Fifteenth ward, making numerous speeches for his party. Mr. Binswanger is quite a humorist, and his dialectic work is well known among the churches in and around Baltimore. While at the Baltimore City College he was the recipient of the Wight medal for proficiency in elocution, which is yearly given for the best declamatory rendition at a contest held by the two literary societies at the College — the Bancroft and the Carrollton. to the latter of which Mr. Binswanger belonged. To his energetic business ability and popularity, the success and efficiency of the ' 99 Year Book is greatly indebted. The Board of Editors.

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Severn 1 eackle vv allis BY THOMAS S. BAER, ESQ., OF THE BALTIMORE BAR. EVERN TEACKLE WALLIS was, for many years prior to his death in 1894, the Provost of the University. The Bench and Bar assembled to do honor to his memorv and adopted a memorial minute, to be entered upon the records of the Supreme Bench, to this effect : ' ■ Rcsok ' cd. That in the deatli of Severn Teacklo Wallis. the Bar of Alar vland has lost its brightest ornament, his friends, a clierished and revered companion, and the State, its noblest citizen. Chief Justice Harlan, in responding for the Bench, in part, used this language : The acknowledged leader of the l)ar has fallen. Equally pre-eminent as a lawyer, orator, patriot. Severn Teackle Wallis has passed away. But the influence of his life remains. He occupied so conspicuous a place at the bar and in the community ; he united, in his remarkable personality, so much that fills the mind with admiration and the heart with affection ; he was such a personification of lofty ideals ; he was so high- minded, so cultured, so versatile, so accomplished, so knightly, so nobie, so faithlul in the performance of duty, so courageous, so contemptuous of all that was ignoble, so unsparing of himself in any cause that he espoused; he did so much to raise the standards of professional and public life; he was so ready to enlist his talents when- ever and wherever he believed they would make for right; he was so true to his friends, so attractive in his social qualities, that he has long been justly regarded as illustrating the highest type of our profession, a model as well as an inspiration to all who have known him, and to those who shall come after him. These proceedings, together with addresses made l)y mcmljers of the bar and the response from Chief Justice Robinson, of the Court of Appeals, will be found in Volume yy of the Maryland Reports. At the time of his death the managers or directors of the many associations and institutions, educational, charitable and semi-political, with which iie was connected, met and adopted resolutions or minutes of similar import, to be entered upon their records. He, of whom this superlative eulogy could be spoken, must, indeed, have been a man among men. 25