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

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JAMES B. ANGELL

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Senior zlass Bistorv T IS N0 easy task to write the history of a class like '96, and yet it would be difficult to lind a more -Z-.gg pleasant one. lt is difhcult when we think of the members as individuals+-as men with separate biog- ? . f raphies on another page. It is pleasant, for it calls gi ' up familiar and friendly faces and old scenes which one would not willingly forget. f The mind unconsciously begins to meditate upon the strange chance which brings over three hundred young men here from all parts of the country, 'who work together the allotted time and then melt away again as strangely as they came. And then we speculate as to who will be the successful ones. For we know that among so many students there is at best only a certain per cent. who succeed. Some of us will never practice, say the statisticians, some will grow rich, more will stay poor, a few may even become criminals. It is all a question of per cent., though Ifbelieve our class contains ele- ments which will give the very bestresults. But it is worse than useless to prophesy. Sufhce to say, that some of our most esteemed members, some college graduates perhaps, with all the grace and polish of the world will sink completely into zmzoczious ziesuemrie while the name of some quiet plodder, whose very existence is scarcely known, will be in the mouth of every man. Yet, HI-Iope springs eternal in the human breast, and every man is confident that he is not the one who is to fail. The Class of '96 was made up of many types. There was the swagger city chap who wore a collar and blackened his boots. He, probably, had been in a law office, or had held some political sinecure, or, perhaps, had been an insurance agent or a railroad clerk. He was quick and nervous, wanted to get through and out and after the first week could and would solve the knottiest problems off hand. He carried the law in his head-so he said, 6 .