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

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Clara Glidden, in her gentle way 'Mong the legal volumes moving, To a friend in need a friend indeed To every toiler proving, b Has been the lawyerls faithful friend And for his good has striven. Hence our respects, so well deserved, Is freely, frankly giveng And often in the coming years, Our thought in life-work hidden, lfVe'll be students yet, nor soon forget Our gratitude to Glidden. 1 ll V ll dl if all i l EEE.'EEE!li Q l 'l 'l A ,f l 74

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1 OUR LIBRARIAN .0 , 1' li Q, ph! 1. ' xx! if, Q f fl Q v - ftp' - Jai , Tis a pleasant room, old three-naught-s Wfith work and pleasure blended, VVhere each day marks an upward step On th: legal path ascendedg VVhere a hundred ninety lawyer boys, Round the study tables seated, Are each by an impartial hand To a text or case-book treated. 'Tis there behind the oaken desk- The librarian's honored boWer,- Witl1 pleasantness and modesty In a governmental power, 73 ix

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RESPECT FOR LAW' BY ROSCOE POUND., DEAN ffm . D! ' , 3 L.-XY friend to whom I suggested the sub- ject, Respect for Law. responded. as ' ii:-321 ' ii ' lavmen will, If You want the law re- spected, make it respectable. Our pro- ' ,, if 'f n ession is usec to suci jests. aniuiani, some 2250 years changed their dec spiders' webs, in through. The aut that Alfred hung names it as one of he lived that such before Christ, legislated against judges who isions. The Greek wise man compared laws to which small nies are caught but the great break hor of the apocryphal Mirror of Justices tells us some thirty-two judges during' his reign, and the chief abuses of the degenerate times in which executions had ceased. The monks of the Mid- dle Ages had a saying, 'iB0lIfZI5 j111'1's111, 11101115 C1Z1'1.SfC'l,U and Luther went them one better with his, Hf1lI'1'Sff'll 110050 C111'Z'Sft'11f, ja c1111- b011's1c1z. ' Melancthon termed us u1UgI1l11 r011101'f01'rs, 110110111111 F.1'f01'fCS.H Shakespeare had more than one Hing at the law and its professors. The subtleties of law and the artincialities of procedure have been satyrized by Browning. Tn short, as long as there have been laws and lawyers, conscientious and well-meaning men have believed laws mere arbitrary technicalities and lawyers crafty warp- ers of them to suit their own purposes. It is evident, then, that a great deal of what is said about the law, in any age, must be taken with much allowance. The defeated litigant, the lawyer who does not observe Judge Groverls rule as to election of remedies, the man of one idea, whose idea has not yet been embodied in the law of the land, the man who is on inti- 'liuniaeaumamcs I5 Fl 51:1sN1:E, fuvu uns nv THE GRFINEEET EEIENEE5 UPDN WHICH THE HHMAN Minn ann BE EmP1..u-1E1:x, - asmntev 75