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

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awhile we are Jfere We are not egotisticalg far from it! VVe are only exponents of the great virtue of truth. So when we calmly assure you, gentle reader, that you are even now perusing the printed record of, per- haps, the best all-round class that ever left the Law School, you must bear in mind that we are simply telling you what cold candor and justice to ourselves compel us to say. Pray lend us your ears. lt was in the fall of 1902 that we first commenced work to- gether and had our nrst political scrap. Although we are veterans at the art now, that first melee is still fresh in the minds of most of us. It was then that Pfeiffer made his first political appearance and first propounded his parliamentary rules. It was there that McReynolds' bell-metal voice first made itself known. It was there that Shumann's forehead assumed its first frown. It was a memora- ble time! The result of it all was the election of C. P. Craft as president. And then came the calm, and we caught our breaths. For the first time our attention was turned to worldly things, and we heard the earnest voices of Dean Reese and Professor Rob- bins come fioating down to us from somewhere in the distance, to remind us that we were there for other purposes than practical politics. That all happened long ago, when we were juniors, for it has only been this year that the ignoble title of Freshman has been applied in the Law School. The first year slowly spread itself out before us, and as slowly came to an end. But many and weighty were the things that hap- pened in the process. To a few, the experiences of college life were a new and untried field, but to the majority the paths had been trodden plain by years of academic training. Some were then -but not now-friendless. It took a year to get acquainted, and another year to hnd out what really good fellows embryonic lawyers are. How the ideas of some of us must have changed when Dean Reese called us together and gave us our first fatherly talk. In- stead of the harsh, stern old chancellors of the wood-cut, we learned that after all lawyers and judges are but men, with manly feelings and kind words as other men, and somehow we were glad to find it out. Witli the beginnings of the second and third terms Professors Lobingier, VVilson, and Cook in turn found their opportunities to 34

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jifarm Q The year of 1903 -OL marked the beginning of a 1 rew period in the history of the College of Law

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QS. VICE-PRES-I DENT Chas. F. Cowan Louis C. Lightuer A. H. We11e11sick F. L. Sward PRESIDENT Chas. P. Craft John T. Milek E. F. Suaveley R. C. james SECRETARY R. C. james Samuel Rees, jr I. M. Armstrong R. J. Anderson