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

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Robbinsps abstruse jokes and to spend more time on real property. The football team, captained by Merton Corey, was working hard to achieve fame. Its efforts increased when Robbie,' remarked to some of the members who were caught seuhiing in the class room that he had always noticed that class room athletes made sorry field athletes. Wfhen the din of conflict was over the Law School championship was ours. About this time the class voted to give a dance, and Calkins, Hewitt, Corey, and Brown were ap- pointed to conduct it. Cn came the cold, bleak days and with them the shadows of mid-year examinations. The halls resounded with wild dialogues on executory uses. Tmpending doom darkened the faces of many. Enyart asked fewer questions. The fateful days came. A few fell by the waysideg some staggered through the pearly gate, all had been taught the lesson that freshmen have much to learn. It was probably this conviction that led to a very stirring event. Library books began to disappear. This amorous attention to learning met with a jealous response from Dean Pound. His daily invectives would have inspired Cicero himself. Library priv- ileges were curtailed from the freshmen, until in dire desperation, a novel plan was hit upon. Every freshman was required, upon pain of suspicion, to file within a week an afhdavit stating that he had no library book in his possession. The books came back with Mercurial haste. The blot on our escutcheon was finally erased. ' But excitement was by no means on the wane. XV ith the ap- proach of the mid-year election it was rumored that Miss Courtnay and Miss Rust each had designs on the presidency. This, the two ladies emphatically denied. President Brown was again quoted as saying that he would, under no circumstances, accept another term. In the ensuing election A. G. A. Nelson was proclaimed president. Miss Courtnay and Miss Rust were accorded the vice-presidency. Edward Affolter was elected secretary, and Chas. Borg, sergeant- at-arms. The results of the mid-year examinations were then made known. The three highest men who received book prizes were O. A. Bergren, Merle Brown, and I. D. Clark. Those three men were appointed justices of the peace for the ensuing year. At the beginning of the second year the burdens of office fell upon Merton L. Corey, president, Edward Affolter, vice-president, Benjamin F. Butler, secretary, Wfilliam Ramsey, treasurer, and A. C. Meier, sergeant-at-arms. Their administration was a quiet 59

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THE JUNIORS The lives of great men all remind us that we may make our lives sublime. It is from motives of sincere and tender solicitation for our descendants that we are determined to omit nothing from these worthy annals, which would convince them that they too may 'fleave behind them footprints in the sands of time. Surely to offer any further reasons, multitudinous as they are, to justify writing the history of the class of 1907 would be highly frivolous. Read of our deeds and prepare yourselves, lest flaming ambition quite o'erwhelm youg As we grow older and reminiscent, we recollect with broaden- ing smiles how, with bated breath and obsequious demeanor, we Hocked into our first law class and how, erect in our chairs of inse- cure construction, with eyes intent and ears alert, the present junior Class began its eventful career. Our instructors were most com- mendably patient. After much assiduous effort Dean Pound rc- marked that very few had yet learned the noble art of asking in- telligible questions. But some time later, elated at Burke Enyart's signs of improvement in this respect, he called a meeting of the class with a view to organization and suggested as temporary chair- man a bearded gentleman of judicial appearance, Merle Brown, who was accordingly installed. Then the Dean left us to ilounder our way through the sloughs of law school politics. Mr. Brown made such a prepossessing spectacle with his inoustaches that he stormed the meeting, and, when the clouds of strife had rolled away, he appeared as our guiding star. Burt C. johnson was elected vice-president. H. VV. Martin, as a result of adroit schem- ing with the three lady laws, captured the secretaryship. This bold display of feminine influence in another's favor stirred Wfilliam C. Parriott to thunder forth a rousing speech. The class reasoning that, if his strength of body equaled his strength of voice, he would be eminently fitted, when Enyart should attempt to retain the floor, to rescue order from usurping chaos, proclaimed him sergeant-at- arms. It is a striking instance of ideal self-government that in the junior class the need of a constitution with its complicated checks and balances has never been felt. The days wore on. Wfe began to, look less askance at the syllabig to listen with diminishing horror to Professor XVilson's cry from the desert that a number of the class were approaching the precipice of Mt. Flunkg to laugh less boisterously at Professor 58

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one. At Christmas time the class joined with the other classes in presenting to Miss Glidden, as a token of high esteem, a cut glass piece. This semesterls regime consists of Benjamin F. Butler, presi- dent, W. C. Parriott, vice-president, joseph R. Green, secretaryg Irene Courtnay, treasurer, Kate Kendall and A. C. Meier, ser- geants-at-arms. The class has been well represented in University enterprises. In debating, Merton Corey was an alternate on the team that de- feated Vifashington University last year, and Charles A. Sawyer was a member of the team that defeated Kansas University two years ago and Iowa University last year. In journalism jack Clark did excellent work as editor-in-chief of the Daily Nebraskann last semester. In athletics, VVilliam I-Ioar has for the past two years been captain of the basketball teamg Burt C. johnson was at Chi- cago last year proclaimed the champion gymnast of the Mid-'West Wfilliam Smith and Charles Dort have been members of the football eleven and baseball nine. And now with this record we rest our case. If we have ac- complished little, at least we have learned how to labor and to wait. ,A ,.:s- F ix y-'gt . S4 f' -77 a ,A A M I lirx, Txr l 5 J ijt? ,fj- 1 - ju V . 'IU ' wt- . CJ' 4, J 'Nb M i i ?r,..fLi,Q'!'ki L'.vfj -iwuiivgii ' JVFA .1 'QL 1:5 1 ,J ,.i, '5 'f - I :V Iflgjifidf A 'f A 'W Y --If ,,,f,4i.-'1 .-fgfiwvi ., ' t - -- , 'Y -if .va za A-th c c 'yrt'-'xwieij k- I lf' ' M, Affrqf gfJ,g7',3,j'hIflW','j' Maikl Ns Lx fi mlltg . .-- nf ' a H 'wtwffri W7-ix-'X A 31 K-.xr ,lltffx fXi'531'f' 1' i'l!i.- A .li 4675 'TTII -,X1.. ..w iw, ,i ,,M, UNM, X i .X x-AX IM' MQ 1' U ...lvl I. V ,Wh , Mu, - 1 1 ,, Will, limlllu' ii. 'NX i TNQ , 7 f+e1l' -iff! iw ff t,iHi4iixjjl,1x--P . as a s? 'N .a 1 jf , A , -T' - A , it rfil if- yin '- 4, -Q . . ,-5if,.'g',1g,,'..Z: Y WV, ., , f, f ly, I xlxxX, - in i-d,,.fr.:--V. . -WT , 1-gllff ix'- fy! Q :LZ vu- L - ' 'itz-is ' 5L:.F1,'a5?E'f?'s5' reef 5,2 -- '- ' gf'- 2:- 'll f-ifwil .- ' - -E ' E 1' 'ii' L4 ff I fri-.., ' ,Ji ,FE 'Ui ff ff f - ,ry 7 ., .- -- d ? it, E1-15 ' Q . -- J Cox! --1 ---- If-if. fl Wi-, ' -,.,..i fFrom an Old Printj