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

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LEVI T. GRIFFIN

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Freshman Glass Bistorv ' ,l .i.- X 5 HE Law Class of '98 has taken but its first 7 flip step in the path along which it is to move - Q during the three short years of its existence. ' Qi But it iswith no spirit of hesitancy or chagrin , that itpresents the results of that step or lf-' ffflf 0- portrays the future into which so auspicious a beginning promises to lead.. ' I ' ' D V c The circumstances under which this illustrious body of students has come together are indeed extraordinary. The great array of lawyers, as well as their still greater array of disappointed clients, have watched with passive interest the yearly deluge of LL.B.'s that has spread itself over the country attempting to raise the scales of justice by the strength attained in two years of hurried prepara- tion, and anxiously longed for a time when the barriers through which admittance is gained to institutions of legal education would be more closely guarded, and a course be introduced of sufficient length to insure a thorough understanding of the law. The Law Department, too, not slow to realize the popular demand, has long been looking for a class in whose care they might safely place the responsibility of making the advance that will place Michigan's Law School at the head of all schools of its kind in America. Not until they were privileged to welcome the enlight- ened and promising concourse that thronged their halls on the second of last October have they seen all the necessary elements for such anattempt grouped in the being of one class. There are those, who, jealous of the dim' halo of distinction already seen slowlyiforming about the life of this their infant rival, have inti- mated that in ?98 is seen a class of insufficient knowledge to know when the are being hoodwinked, and for that reason work is being V thrust upon themfwhich others would not carry. We leave such to nurse. the soreness of their defeat. .