University of Nebraska College of Law - Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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mrs. Marg D. manning V so 1 MRS. MARY D. MANNING, instructor y Wll ,Q . in oratory for the College of Law, is a grad- 1 y nbih uate of the Boston School of Oratory froni I I Which institution she Was graduated in 1884. In ' 1 At that time Dr. R. R. Raymond was clean I ,.,,' l of the school. During the following year i lA she took a graduate course in the sanie in- Q I le' ,A l stitution, and in 1886 studied under Prof. l 'llnl 1 ' ' 5 T. Brown, formerly professor of oratory i lr at Tufts college. Mrs. Manning became L,W,,,-AMQWM--Wg y connected With the University of Nebraska as instructor in oratory and elocution in 1894, which position she still retains. During the sunimer of 1895 she studied with Mrs. Laura Y. Tindale, of Chicago, and the coming suniiner expects to visit New York and Boston to spe- cialize in oratory and the philosophy of expression. She is an en- thusiastic Worker in her chosen field, and seeks always to be abreast of the times in' her subj ect.

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'iff CIS DDQ were To tell all the happenings, during our junior year, which might be of interest, would certainly be a task of no small magnitude. I will content myself, therefore, with simply noting a few of those incidents as they come to my mind, which seem to standout more conspicuous than the rest. The junior law student, take him all in all, is an interesting personage to dwell upon. He is an ambitious individual. His mark is high, his aspirations know no bounds. He has perused the lives of a few great men at least, which remind him that he may also make his life sublime, and so he comes to the scene of action, enters the great field of law, begins the arduous task of mastering the broadest and noblest profession known to man, with a conndence of ultimate success that must be amazing to the old practitioner who has served the bar and bench from a quar- ter to a half century, and who knows better even than a Senior theemultitude of intricate problems and principles that necessar- ily must confront every beginner, to test his metal, try his nerve, and prove his knowledge and skill in the law before he can be assured of even a reasonable degree of success. lVell it is that the storm signal, indicating the coming of conflicting opinions, the clashing of authorities, and last but not least the final examin- ations, is to him obscured in the distance, else he might grow weary and faint at heart at the very beginning. Again, well, it is for him that these dangers are plainly visible to the good Dean, who has ever the happy faculty of presenting them to the stu- dents of his class, with profuse illustrations, just in time to avoid disastrous results, to say nothing of fatalities. The class entered upon the study of Blackstone, as soon as school opened, and there some of us found sufficient food for thought to- keep us awake nights, for the diet was so strong, and it was given in such liberal doses, that new patients invariably had to take it witha little mixture of mid-night oil in order to digest well. But as there is an end to all things, so in the course of human events