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

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DEAN POUND

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FRESHMAN BASKET-BALL TEAM KURTZ HUTCHINSON LAIRD MATHERS BECKER GIBSON jres man as et: a C' h J k 93 ll .al The Freshman Law basket-ball team labored under a serious handicap, viz., the lateness of the season before efforts were made to rind material for a team, and institute practice work. But two games were played, and both of these were with the Senior Laws. While the Seniors were victorious, yet the Freshmen found con- solation in the fact that they had organized the first team that ever represented the Freshman Laws. They were also gratified by dis- covering that they had a number of players who exhibited pro-mises of merit. The following constituted the personnel of the team: Bickford, Kurtz, Becker, Hutchinson, Laird, Hall, Gibson Cman- agerj, and Mathers Qcaptainj. 75

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if word of :fdviee bq Qean Sbound 12 Lord Eldon, when applied to for advice by a father who had two sons, one sharp and quick, the other slow but painstaking, told him to make a lawyer of the latter. I was never anything myself, he added, but a plodderf' Although we may believe that his lord- ship's estimate of his abilities was too modest. it must be conceded that patient thoroughness was one of the chief causes of his great success in the profession. Perhaps in no other calling will patient and persistent hard work achieve more than in the law. Not only will hard work compensate for many fleliciencies, but even con- siderable abilities will not lead one far without it. Hence, I should say, first of all, don't be afraid of hard work. The beginner can not be too careful in everything that he does. If he learns the lawyer-like method first, he can determine later in his professional life what may be omitted or relaxed without harm. Don't think there will be nothing for you to do in the years you may be obliged to wait for business. Gnly by spending that time of waiting properly will you be enabled to do, and hence to keep, the business when it comes. For one thing, if you can find the time, read the reports of the state in which you are practicing. Don't wait till a case arises and then rush for a digest. Know what is in the reports. The older lawyers, who have tried or argued the cases in the reports or referred to them repeatedly, have a great advantage of you here, but if they have more experience and a larger acquaintance with the reported decisions, you will have more tirne. And you will be surprised to find how much experience may be neutralized by the surplus of time and greater capacity for work a young man has to throw into the scale. If you read the reports of your state carefully, volume by volume, you will in the end economize this time, which is a young lawyer's chief asset. In doing this you need not become what is called a case lawyer. I am inclined to think the real case lawyer is he who knows so little of the cases that he is frightened at superficial analogies in the re- ports and in terror of the case on all fours. There is no danger that a lawyer who really knows the cases will become a slave to them. I-Ie is their master. Moreover, those who talk loudest about '77