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

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Q Post Graduate Bistorv M, HE Graduate Law Class of ,96 enjoys the dis- :,fiQ:,f e tinction of being the largest since the establish- ment of the course in 1889, and of course it has also the usual characteristic of being the bright- n'1 ' - ,v .nn ua 1f'.1- li 'KT ,v . , '-'15 -'.. I w':z--,-:igfw + est. The final test of our distinguishing quali- vf -- s Q W ii .lil ' ties, however, will come later when the confer- ring of degrees is in order. H There were twenty-six of us when we started to trace the growth and development of the Roman Law down through the ages, but our ranks were greatly decimated by the time we had reached the Napoleonic Code. Some of us had fallen by the wayside. The first. break was in the Ohio delegation. Klinger and Quail saw the boom coming that was to put the favored son of the state in the Presidential chair and they hurried home to open- a law office and be where the lightning might strike when it came to consular appointments. Coutts had found his diversion in writing prize agricultural essays. With the product he concluded to get a start of the new army of 'flaws and located at Charlevoix, while our only lady member had refused to play any longer, and had taken her doll and gone home. When we came together in the seminary course on Real Property after our experience of giving a fewtwritten answers to questions on various subjects, our professor anxiously inquired, H Is this all there is left ? Even Iohn Sousa had disappeared, and there was no one to tell us all about a fee simple. It was during these days of trial that we realized how far from being a 'N snap the P. G. course was, and felt that our additional whirl at college life was not one of unalloyed pleasure. But we had learned at least what a serpentine dance was, and that it could not be copyrighted, while our typewriter had given us Medical jurisprudence up to date.

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Our experience on the Whole has been thrilling, though brief. The new order of things had reached our' branch of Work and spurred us on to desperation, so that we yearned for the early days of the course, when the candidates for Masters degree selected their own major and minor subjects, and then enjoyed life till spring came again. ' I Our main diversion during the year was in forming a debating society, and after we had settled the burning questions of the day, we merged into a class organization and guarded against jealousy and strife by providing an office for every man, the high private being the most honorary position of all. We have endeavored to maintain the dignity of the class of '95, of which most of us were members, but have found some difficulty at times in suppressing the delegations from ,QS and '94. We were successful by having the heavy-Weights from Ohio on the side of law and order, and now stand a united phalanx readyisoon to set the World afire by our burning Words before the bar of the land. E. B. '