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

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 89 of possibilities, a building of air castles as it were. It has been said that 'C To a healthy mind the world is a constant challenge of opportunities? If this is so, what a future is in store for us. We have not an unhealthy mind among us. I am advised by our .statistician that the average condition of our minds is only two per cent lower than the alumni of the Harvard Law School, and ive per cent lower than the law schools of California. This is really remarkable when we consider that the lawyers living upon the sea coasts eat a g1'eat deal of fish. And fish, as is well known, is a great brain producer. We of the middle states are at a disadvantage in this respect, it not being so much a custom of the people to eat fish in large quantities, owing to the scarcity and consequent high price. It is possible, however, to sometimes obtain a fair quality of fish here, as for instance Columbia river salmon, pike, from the west, and' smelts and perch, which are frozen and shipped from the least. But they lose their freshness, and vitality, you might call it, in transportation, so that by the time they are placed upon our tables for final consumption, the real brain essence is gone and -consequently they are of little value to us as a brain food. I have taken occasion to digress a little to the subject of fish, merely to show that our alumni are laboring at a slight handicap in favor of those who live on the coast. But what we lack Qand' it is very smallj in brain development is completely overshadowed by the excellence of our capacity to do, our energy and push, and our unchallenged breadth of mind which enables us to suc- cessfully grapple the most intricate subjects and bring them to a scientific focus. We are essentially active and progressive. Long may we live and prosper. ADDENDA.-Since writing the above, I am advised that the ofhccrs of the association were and are as follows: Presidmt, Hon. A. A. Hatch, Secrctcwy-Ziicccszwer, Hon. A. G. Wfolfenbargerg during the season of 1895-96. Present in- cumbents: Presidemf, Hon. E. M. Tracy, Se0rezfm'y-ffl'easmi'c7', Hou. John H. Farwell. Ezfeczct'iv,-e Committee, Hon. F. H. lVoods, '92, Hon. E. J. Burkett, '93, Hon. T. F. A. Wfilliams, '9-L, Hon. R. E. Johnson, '95, Hon. J. L. Stephens, '96. CLARENCE YOUNG SMITH.

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Cllumni Clssociaticn A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE DOINGS AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, FROM THE DATE OF THE ORGANIZATION TO THE PRESENT DAY. The law is a sort of a hocus pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket, and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it. Lawyers are undoubtedly the brainiest class of beings extant. The scope of their knowledge is confined to nothing. They are masters of all the sciences. What a lawyer does not know about men and things is not considered proper to know. It is this superhuman smartness which every lawyer possesses that impelled me to follow in the footsteps of my sire and enter the profession, which embraces knowledge of every possible character. I desired to familiarize it all, and as a consequence the Alumni Association of the Law School of Nebraska now has the honor of my membership. As an alumni society we first came into existence in J une, 1895, at a time when the country was suffering from depression. A 'president and secretary were elected, and the following June new officers were named to assume the arduous duties connected with the preservation and maintenance of the association. There are no records of this institution, and we are entirely without money in the treasury. This embraces in full the Law Alumni Association, from the date of its birth to the present day. I have ventured somewhat into detail so that all members might be apprised fully in the premises, with the view that the record might be complete as far as we have gone. Although the labor has, in some respects, been arduous, yet I have experienced much pleasure in reviewing the grand work accomplished by the association. It has brought me into closer touch with many of my fellow members, and by comparison of the past with the future, I am made to realize the possibilities which lie before us. There is always pleasure in a contemplation

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90 1 THE DIGEST JULIAN A. ABBOTT, '96. Born af, Falls Oity, Nebraska, February 10, 1873, parents Americans. Graduated at Falls City High School in 1888. Has held assist- ant clerkships of Farmers' Bank at Broken Bow, and bank of Lushton, Nebraska. .Present head bookkeeper in State Auditorjs ofiice. Free silver democrat. Address 1641 Locust street, Lincoln, Neb. GRANT F. AHL- BURG, 794. Born March 9, 187 4, near Ly- ons, Kansas, completed course at Lyons HighSchool in 1891, attended the Univer- sity of Nebraska in 1893 and 1894. F orni- erly a republican but is now a free silver democrat. Is practicing with much success at Lyons, Kansas. JOHN H. BARRY, 793. Born in Rock- V I ' ford, Illinois, October 7, 1868, of Irish A 5 1.iU'97v.. . ' . .2 I K . al parents. Graduated from Walioo High School in 1890. Mr. Barry was originally a republican but is now a populist. Since 1893 he has been engaged in the practice of the law at Vlfahoo, Neb., without a partner. FRANK E. BISH- OP, '93. Born in La I 1 1 4 ' L Grange county, In-H diana, shortly after the war. Received the deg1'ee of B.L., from the University of Nebraska in 1891. Studied in the ofiice of Marquette, Deweese :Sic Hall. Upon gi'adu- ation he immediately began practice, and is now associate attorney in law department of B. :Q M. R. R. at Lincoln.