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

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having charge of the equity docket. Burke C. Enyart was desig- nated as clerk and gratter. The members of the supreme court were E. H. Clark, LL.B., C. J., B. P. McKelvey, LL.B., and J. R. Berry, LL.B., J. I. Bartos, the eloquent, had charge of the records. After the examinations, more properly termed the slaughter of the sluffersf' and when Dean Pound had returned from the Con- gress on Divorce Legislation, the appointments for the second se- mester were made known. Edw. Affolter and O. A. Bergren each drew a second term as I. P. B. C. Enyart was made the third. In the district court C. A. Davis took the place made vacant by the resignation of Judge Blezek and M. S. McDuffee was shifted to the woolsack. Harry Keyser became official collector with possession of the great seal of the court. F. A. Schmidt was created sheriff and head jailor. In the supreme court appeared E. H. Clark, LL.B., C. I., Geo. Lantz and Jas. A. Clark, I. I. Jas. T. Fisher was made attorney-general and official trust-buster. A By the work in these courts the students' training in the ad- jective law is carried to greater extent than is usual in many law schools. ' During the year 1904-5 twenty-two cases were disposed of by the district court, a large number being appealed from the justice of peace courts. Nearly as many cases were argued in the supreme court during the same year, most of these being appeal cases or pro- ceedings in error. When established, these courts were much of a novelty. Yet they have given the students a greater amount of training in prac- tice and in the orderly conduct of a trial than had ever before been attempted. And after three years' operation they can no longer be called an experiment: those who know pronounce them a success. M. S. M. D. 82 ,E . - 'A ,- - 359, 6 'sr 7' ' - - - . M 'f- Q J ' .- - . -- , -2 . A , - - . 15 47 1 ,, 543 , K , -ML ' , :Z M,-, if -L--A ff 1, 2 -A Zgiiffgi - f. . .ff Q- ,f ' a f W' f' J -ff! . -1? f .- .. QQ.: Q - ff, f 'VV 4-L' N-F' 74 at '. yy 44 t A7 ei., ,L--,3 IQ f Af if 'I zazari' ' . -my , - A,-,,,,f - ,. . 1- f A-9 c A 5, xx: N ' fr 75, X Ml' TNI ' ERR fi D, . rg I , lt tx .X X .ir . p 1--.K n lf. Q A A. 4 KiXXK.'Tx-54 , 'A . fgy. , A--1 .Q . .J up X U 1 U. M ..-V - I A 98

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NAPOLEON THE EXILE ST. HELENA, 1815 BY DANIEL FORD, PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC My power is spent. My majesty is gone, Combined force has wrenched it from my grasp And thrown to earth the fragments once for all! Omnipotence will never cease to be The right which God reserves unto himself, Else he might justly fear for his own sway O'er brief mankind, presumptuous and vain, If mortals could with- force akin to brutes Trample the universe beneath their feet. VV ith me has fortune dealt most cruelly- I dared too much and, daring, lost the wealth, A The power, the state which former chance had won. I thought to rival Alexander, and like him Beneath my rule bring every alien race. All, all is over! VVhere now resides that might 99