University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Che AP' AP' Faculty H? EUGIQNIQ C. MILLS, who is now giving instruction in the School of Mines, entered the University in 1893, and pur- sued the course in mining en- gineering, graduating with the class of 1897. During the year '97-'98 he assisted in the School of Mines and was this year elected Instructor in mining. ClIfXl1I.l4IS EDXK'IN VAN BAR- NICVICLII, B. A. Sc., E. M., was born at The Hague, Holland, Nov. 26th, 1869. He was educated at Lysee de Saint Andre, Franceg Kings Col- lege, VVindsor, Nova Scotiag Mc- Gill University, Montreal, Can- ada. Mr. van Barneveld has fol- lowed the profession of mining engineering and metallurgist in Colorado, New Mexico, Califor- nia, Arizona, Mexico and Cen- tral America. In 1898 he became Associate Professor of mining in the Uni- versity of Minnesota. . I

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Hawke? The Lamp and the Scales. GGG Absque Hoc Blackstone and Solomon Van Campen Emerson were discuss- ing the ideals and relative merits of their chosen professions. They sat by the open fire place, its light pale and faint from the fiery eloquence that scintillated before it. The great old chimney seemed to be a willing guest at this banquet of the mind, served with the delicacy and brilliancy of chefs, and flavored with the condiment of inate ambition and personal dislike. In this duel of words Absque Hoc had, at the end of each parley, like a De Bergerac, thrust his rapier-like remarks into the very body of Emerson's argument, until now, chagrined and maddened by his defeat and fearing that at the end of this verbal combat his adversary would, like Cyrano at the close of his sonnet, give him a silencing thrust, the academician began to attack the purity of the legal profession. Why sir, he began, 'tlawyers are unscrupulous and unconscientious. They make the worse appear the better reason. They would have you believe 'that white is black.' Witli a tale of woe, poulticed with a leaven of sorrow, they plead for criminals confessedly guilty of heinous crimes. Recall the great Strayward trial, and then uphold the ethics and morals of your pro- fession! Look at the instances of subornation, bribed jurors and office-made perjurorsl All for a passing fame and the almighty dollar! Such a pro- fession would, for pay and without remorse, rob a Christian of his faith, a woman of her good name, or a Madonna of her child! It lifts its hydra head with the malice of a demon, and, had it the power, would willingly, for pay, make the Sermon of the Mount a curse upon mankind! It's life is a poison to all about it. It breathes scandals and noisome vapors and feeds on the shame and the troubles and the miseries of mankind. There is no moral law it would not break, no right of sanctuary of the human heart it would not invade, if by so doing, it could add shekels to its hoard or gratify the morbid cravings of a criminal to have its name sounded in the ears of a passing mob. ' B1.ACKS'I'oNI-3: Your tirade, Emerson. simply illustrates how easy it is to make a mountain out of a mole hill--how prejudice overrides reason. You let a little drop of ink blacken a whole barrel of water. If for the misdeeds of a few you can attack the purity of my profession, can I not condemn yours by a mere reference to such trash as Kruetzer Sonata or the 'works of Boccac- cio or one of Oscaris poems? No, our callings must not be judged by dif- ferent standards. Professions are to be judged, not by what the worst in them seem to be, but by what the noblest are and aspire to be. The legal profession has always been the object of such empty lampoon- ing as comes not from your reason or heart, but from your prejudiced tongue. You place yourself on the plane of the non-professional whose ears are ang,