University of Michigan Law School - Quad Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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jeffersonian Societv motto: ' ' EDQI' 0IlWdl'd HE most potent social for- ces of to-day were, in their inception, weak if not in- signincant. Science, Democ- racy, Christianity, each began in an humble striving after knowledge and truth. Where- ever we turn, whether in the realm of the material, the so- cial, or the ethical, we find the palpable forces and truths which we recognize leading back through gradually con- tracting channels to trivial and almost unrecognizable 'flirst causes . , i The Jeffersonian Society owes its origin to the earnest desire of a few industrious young men to prepare them- ' selves for the active and ardu- - ous duties of professional life, LAYVRENCE W. HALSEY T f of whom Lawrence W. Halsey, now a prominent lawyer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was the leading spirit. It began its career as an incorporated society in October of -1864, with a membership constitutionally limited to forty. Its purpose was, and is, parliamentary and social culture, than which there can be no more important function, for surely, organization, practice in debate, and ready efliciency in the use of that noblest gift to man +speech-is the most fitting preparation for onefs life- work. The constitutional restriction on membership has been removed, and in the thirty-two years of the society's existence over 1,500 hopeful young men, zealously pursuing the .science which its ablest expounder termed 'ffthe perfection of wisdom , have participated as active members in rendering its weekly program. These fifteen hundred. students-incipient lawyers, judges and statesmen-were benefitted in their mutual relations and stimulated to -increased exertions by the friendlyrcontests in which they here. engaged. But it is not here that the widest and grandest results of the society can be studied. It is in the life work of men that we must trace the beneficial results of the Jeffersonian. True, its work is only preparatory, the banks of the stream aresimply direc- tory, yet with their aid the mountain which rises athwart the stream is cut in twain, and the little current goes on to accomplish its destiny. Thus the real benefit of the jeffersonian is, by learning to surmountismaller difficulties, to train the student for those greater difficulties the overcoming of which prove the man. ' CHAS. E. CHADMAN.

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