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

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Dec. 22. Dean Pound and Enyart hold a conversation in Latin in the classroom. Dec. 29. Bartos asks Mr. Flansburg if it is well to make a flowery speech to the jury. Ian. 4. Bollen consumes the period in partnership arguing the case of Case U. Beauregard. Ian. 6. Chase, Begley, Martin and McDuffee run off to the court house for the fifth consecutive day. Must be a sensational case on trial. Ian. 7. Crocker has procured the license. Her folks interfere and send her to England before execution of the power given by the said license. Ian. 9. Eager, representative of Standard Oil, argues the in- justice to the corporations of the doctrine of Hunit of service. Ian. I2. Mattley for fifty-fifth time gets a phone call while in the class room. Jan. 14. T. R. Nelson sleeps while Hastings discusses Dart- mouth College case. Hastings: Anyone who would sleep through that case will never make a lawyer. Ian. 15. Kimmel drives the victorious chariot across the Union Hall stage. Ben Hur put in the shade. Sprague and Eager act as steeds. g Ian. 15. O'Gara for nine hundred and ninety-ninth time this semester thinks the decision contrary to equity and good conscience. Ian. 18. Visiting Chinamen chatter in the chapel while the chickens cackle in the gym. Ian. 18. Ayers in demonstrating the entity theory explains how a three-hundred pound man may be lifted by four fingers. Ian. 19. Members of the second year class in sales spend the evening with their tutor. The beneficial title to a .large quantity of Duke's passes up in smoke. jan. 20. The same tutor gives a smoker for the seniors. Ian. 22. Simon is asked to have his photo taken for this book. Says he: I hgure it that I do n't owe any duty to anybody? Ian. 22. Costigan learns that there is a committee of freshmen at the door to see whether or not the roll is to be called. Ian. 23. The seniors under leadership of Bufhngton consider the f'Little Red VVagon case. Ian. 23. Cn this, the last day for filing the answer, Gibson and Parriott induce Bartos, clerk, to hang around after supper. Martin, opposing attorney, uses more persuasion. He gives Bartos two 64

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Dec. 1. Ayers exhorts the class always to be fair. Be as honest and fair to your opponents as Mr. Borg and Mr. Eager are with the opposing football playersf' Dec. 8. A bevy of Women consult Pound on the right of con- demnation by the Tnterurban line. They dislike his free advice and denounce him as being in league with the company. Dec. Io. Calkins, after reading from the Nebr. reports, looks up a reference to ao Id. 26, and asks several where he can find the Idaho reports. Dec. IO. All the chairs in Union hall are piled by the seniors in front of the door. But the prof. makes his way through to his class. f Dec. 18. The Lowe-Howard episode. Dee. 18. The Gibbs-Faulkner episode. Dec. 19. Black and Clark engage. Black emerges with a black eye. n Dee. 21. Miss Glidden is remembered by the .law students. Dec. 22. Sunny Day gets a box of candy through the mails. Looks foolish and abashed. Runs off from under his hat when approached by johnny Morrison and Hees to his room, bare-headed. 63

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tickets to the Lyric, and Gibson and Parriott are unable to tile their pleading. jan. 25. The personnel of the supreme bench in the practice court room today is Chase, Kendall, and Gibbs, in that order. Jan. 28. Gibson came to school without his hair combed. Wfhat can we say for his wife? jan. 28. Re McCormick's Estate explained to the partnership class. Seniors given a one-hour lesson in addition and long-division. jan. 28. Hastings hands out the wrong questions in exam and catches several napping. jan. 29. Examinations on. Feb. 3. The little comedy of the senior class becomes a serious matter. Feb. 4. Seniors vote to pledge their honor to the Chancellor. Sprague Qin the meetingj, T insist there is no honor left in the senior class. Feb. 4. jack Clark leaves for New York to enter Columbia Law School. Feb. 6. The Nebraskan suspends publication. Feb. 7. Enyart wants to know why they squashed his summons. Feb. 8. Costigan's wit fails to amuse the seniors. He can not get a smile from the property class. Feb. 9. XfVilson gives his animal lecture on the value of the law of evidence. Feb. 9. Lantz refuses to disclose the cause of his black eye. A Bill of Discovery should be filed and Fisher joined as respondent. Feb. IO. Faulkner announces that he has lost his valuable notes in partnership. Feb. Io. Ayers defines a franchise as 'something given by the legislature, oftentimes a graft. Feb. Io. Sprague gets an extra S50 from home this month. Stratton, Fisher and Sprague are missed from class for a week. Feb. II. Lowe draws loo per cent in damages. Gibbs draws foo per cent in insurance. Feb. 12. The prof. urges juniors to buy books and tells them that, if twenty-five purchase, they can be had for 32.95 instead of 33.00. Feb. 13. Fire in the library. Green works up a sweat. Feb. I4.,.'D6 Lacy and Ryan try a case in the justice court to recover the Sigma Chi window curtains. 65