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

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rnornncv 55 The work is not arduous and Jones will doubtless make a success of it in the future as he has in the past. Ellen will become a butcher. His ample feet, generous hands, and massive arms betoken a man who has the ability to throw an obstreperous steer against a slaughter house door and break his neck. Killen will master the mysteries of pickled pig's feet and liver sausage much easier than he has solved the problems con- tained in Blackstone and Tiedeman. Jfcacleen.-lVliss Madeen will find her law of little value. She will marry and become the mother of a luxuriant family. She will be queen of a household rather than an advocate at the bar of an unfeeling court. Bkwwille is such a pretty boy that he will find his true sphere only when he disgraces the Vaudeville stage by warbling C0 comic songs and winking at the pretty girls in his audiences across the footlights. .Matzffzews has a successful future awaiting him as a church jan- itor. He glides about in such an unobtrusive manner and speaks in tones so low and even that he will be an ideal man to raise and lower windows during religious services, and to examine thei- mometers and whisper the results of his observations to the dea- cons in the front pews. IIHZZW will be pleased to learn that the attorney generalship of the great commonwealth of Nebraska awaits him. He has devel- oped a belligerent disposition by long service as sargeant-at-arms of the Maxwell club, and this, together with his unusual legal acu- men, should win him prodigious success as a prosecuting oflicer. Illmasel.-Very little can be predicted' of a man who has associ- ated with Smith as long as Mousel has. Charley may develop into a justice of the peace and he may become a trainer of race horses. Either Held will fuiinish many opportunities for the de- velopment of sterling traits of character. Iizrker is the oldest man in the class and one of the most sedate, orderly, and substantial individuals in the University. If he sur- vives the abusive and threatening missives with which WVhite and Manville deluge him in class he will become a Sunday school superintendent. Pfacalu deserves something good if anyone does. Mr. Placek,

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54 THE DIGEST wore an 'tice cream suit all winter and now, that summer is here, he has appeared in an outfit of black. lVhat can one say of a man who acts like that? Gojl-A good many famous people have already come out of Nebraska, and many more celebrities will go out from this state in the future. Miss Goff will be one of them. There is no ques- tion as to her succeeding Susan B. Anthony as national presi- dent of the W. A. W. S. A., when Susan finally lays down this lifels burdens. Greevtjield will make a good newspaper editor. His unlimited capacity for prevarication and his cheerful optimism under all circumstances will make him an ideal occupant of the editorial tripod. ' Gustfkn. will be satisfied with nothing less than a United States- distriot attorneyship. His keen legal insight will stand him in good stead in the important battles he will be compelled to wage. for Uncle Samuel. ' Green ought to make a good plasterer or hod carrier. He has tried everything else and failed and he ought to succeed at something. . y n Hassle? is designed for the impecunious father of a large family. He is just the kind of a mild mannered man who always has a. crowd of ragged youngsters clinging to his coat-tails and no bread with which to feed them. This is rather a gloomy prog- nostication for Hassler but it is the best I can do for him. Hilclretfa will develop into a botanist. His gentle ways ought to make him 'a great favorite with the flora of this whirling sphere. His glasses, his nicely brushed clothes, his unostenta- tious manners, all show him to be a lover of nature. He does- violence to his tastes when he studies law. lhywcawl will make an exceptional baggage smasher. He is big and brawny and strong. He is able to pickup a trunk, bring it down on a depot platform and send its contents careening down Nebraska's playful zephyrs. I cannot understand why a young Hercules like Hayward persists in studying law. Jones will doubtless drift back into the business he left when he entered the law school, that of train boy on a through freight.

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56 THE Drensr if death does not gather him in, will some day reach the supreme bench of the United States. His aggressive personality, his pro- foundity of thought, and his remarkable legal erudition will make him one of the brightest stars that has ever shown above the wool sack at Wfashington. Riiclyley was made for a hermit. He studies alone and of nightsf' He walks alone to and from recitations and sits alone in class. He resents familiarities and condemns frivolities. He will retire to the sand hills in the northern part of the state and formu- late a new system of religion. Risser is a tighter. He U scraps just for the fun of Hscrap- pingj' and Hchews the ragu from sheer contrariness. He likes unpopular causes and champions unpopular men and measures. He will become the leader of the prohibition party in Chicago. Smith is one of the best men in the class. He does not intend to waste his talents on the law. With an eye to the main chance he will go to Milwaukee and start a brewery. flute is the only student in the University who is familiar enough with the members of the faculty to go into their private oiiilces and give them pointers as to how the College of Law should be run. He will some day become private secretary to the president of the United States. Thompson expects to compile a cyclopedia. VVhile preparing his thesis he read and made extracts from thirty-seven thousand cases, and habitually employed two colored gentlemen to carry his notes from place to place. He has suflicient experience to tit him for the task he expects to make his life work. Wiztte aspires to the ofHoe of postmaster in Carson precinct of Grant county, Idaho. His extended political experience will materially assist him in securing this plum. Mr. White is well qualilied for the position he seeks. He has repeatedly walked into Lincoln from his Douglas county home, and he has served one term as sergeant-at-arms of the Maxwell Club. D. L. Wilson has a good deal of the philanthropist about him. He believes in doing good to mankind whenever and wherever he is given an opportunity, For that reason and because the occu- pation will be both lucrative and agreeable, he has decided to found and push to succcess a new Greek letter fraternity.