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

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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.

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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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. The maxmell Cilub The Brahmins have a legend which tells how one of the lesser deities created the material universe, and one of the ordinary an- gels peopled the earth. But when the subject of the creation of Youth was presented, all the millions of gods were required to work out that most wonderful and most dangerous gift-the youth -of man. The legend further declares that the creation of a grown-up man was of so little consequence, that any one of them might have performed the act with ease, but the creation of youth, with its beauty, its possibilities, and its fateful charm, required the united genius of the pantheon. 'When they had finally wrought out their labor, and beheld what a perilous thing they had made, they debated a thousand years whether they should be- stow this gift upon the human race. VVhen finally it was decided, .a deputation of angels was sent to earth to endow humanity with this precious boon. Their mission done, they gathered about them a group of the young men and maidens, and said: MNOW you have youth-what are you going to do with it? '7 The angels then re-ascended into the skies, the music of their voices floating back to earth and forever echoing from thought to nadir, from heart to Heaven-ttNow you have youth, what are you going to -do with it? Long ago, as this momentous query was echoing over the American desert, it brushed the minds of a group of sons of the 'uunexhausted west.'7 Great souls they were-portions of eter- nity made on no 'tworn-out planjl masters of their own and other's fates. lVhat are we going to do with our youth? Each looked into the otherls eyes and each saw a purpose as good as their combined achievement was great. WVe,ll form the Maxwell Club, its name shall be a tttower of strength,l' its purposes lVeb- sterian. Then on the eve of that H Golden Clasp which binds to- gether the volume of the week '7 we'll meet together to worship at the shrine of the Attic quartette.