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

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make us work. And how we worked! Syllabi were ignored be- cause we were told we should not read them. Wfe read the cases then, every word, and if, perchance, we happened to run across one a hundred and thirteen pages long, we only sighed and sailed in. VVe knew our duty and we did it. And when Professor Lobingier told us that we should know the cases well enough to discuss them without notes, we simply philosophized that the way of the transf gressor is hard-and learned them. In short, we did as we were told. As for the present,-well, let's stick to the point. We are not done with the juniors. VVith the second semester came renewed political activity. I., K. Milek was chosen class president, and we all had an opportunity to severally contribute fifty cents toward a baseball team that lost every game it played as gracefully as we lost our hard-earned half dollars. But we are learning. This year when the annual hold-up came, the students one and all smole a smile of wondrous size and squinted their left eyes at the crest-fallen collector. And so ended the first year. The second found an entirely new regime. The venerable judge was gone, and Dr. Roscoe Pound illed his place. We missed our old dean, even as we honor our present one. Professor Lo- bingier is also gone, but Professor Cook's work has been so in- creased that we really are not so lonesome after all. The cases we have always with us, donft you know. The year opened with the usual amount of button-holing and sweet smiles from the politicians, and an equal quantity of swelled head for the rest, who suddenly found themselves possessed of virtues they knew not of. Vxfhen the 'smoke of battle had cleared away, the beaming face of E. P. Snaveley confronted the class and Victory named him president. ' Early in October a subscription, endorsed by a unanimous vote, was taken, and a cane presented to Judge Reese. The entire class witnessed the presentation and cheered the touching response of the ex-dean. It ill behooves us to speak of the selection of the board of edi- tors and managers of the Year Book. You, kind friends, are the ones who may best say whether it was well done. Late in the liTSt semester, the first court appointments were made. The supreme court was composed of Messrs. Waltman, Cowan, and Rees, with Knapp as clerk and official fee-taker. Messrs. Armstrong and I. P. Hewitt presided over the district 36

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courts with Towne as clerk. XfVe purposely refrain now and here- after from mentioning the justices of the peace, for in spite of much advertisement and reduced rates the class failed to recognize their ability and had their marriages performed elsewhere. 'With the opening of the first term of court came a judicious cultivation of imposing gestures and piercing glances by the lawyers, and dig- nified frowns by the judges. ln working one night, Hodge dis- covered Cowan seated in the middle of the floor busily engaged in clipping the hair from a fur rug. On being asked what he was doing, he replied that he was only making a wig to wear on the supreme bench. Cases were tried, won, and lost, and the new semester, result- ing in the election of Mr. james as president, came on apace. The second term of co-urt found Messrs. Shelburn, Lightner, and Sar- gent sitting as the supreme court and Honnold as clerk. In the district court were judges T. M. Hewitt and Monroe, Bald being the official boodler. The third term began with Messrs. Buchanan, Kirwan, and Berkey on the wool sack, Hart, clerk, and Messrs. Craft and Samp- son district judges, with Lambe clerk. And so the year is ending, and we are about to leave. To say that we are sorry would be to tell but half the truth. We are also glad. Sorry because it is all over and because the associations of the last two years will be broken. Glad because it is all over and because we will have the opportunity to show ourselves to be men in a world of men. It was ever thus. And so in parting, kind friends, we ask you to watch us when we are through, and if, per- chance, in future years you hear of us once again, pray remember what we have said in the beginning and consider that it could scarcely be avoided. B. G. t i 38