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

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if Efoeiologisfs word to the Zloung idlllllel' W4 No man can be a good lawyer who is only a lawyer. The legal profession exists not to fill your purse but to serve society. But society moves, so that the right of yesterday is the wrong of to-morrow. The swifter the social evolution the more the lawyer is in danger of becoming a conservator of old abuses? The lavv ought to change, and its true line of movement is ascertained, not by poring over precedent, but by studying the shiftings of social need. No one is fit to interpret law, much less make it, who does not, by means of economic, political, and social studies, keep abreast of his time. Never can one play a man's part save by standing out against the madness of the hour. Here and now that madness is greed, and therefore it behooves you, if you love the standards of your profession, to be something of a philosopher. Our age needs men of the Cato type. Finer than any luxury that money can buy is the luxury of despising money. Give your labor for lucre, but not your self-respect, your personality, your good repute. Go into politics, but not until you have a competence and can afford to light for nothing. Some of the vilest politics of to-day is chargeable to good men whose livelihood has come to be bound up with getting or keeping a public office. W7 hen the bread and butter of one's family is at stake, scruples are cast to the Winds. The redemption of politics will come about through men who dare to lose a nomination or an election, men who are content to stay outside and prod those who draw the salaries. VVith the extinction of the buffalo and the grizzly the big- game hunting in this country will soon be confined to rascals and boodlers. This, however, is a noble sport, and no one is so it for it as the lawyer who has won a good foothold in his profession. The public will continue to look to the bar for leaders in its fight against political evil, and if you lead in some successful assault on corruption you will taste at once the satisfaction of unselfish service and the exhilaration of the rarest of sports. Sl

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9ki fDelta 9hi- dv The legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi owes its being largely to the efforts of judge Cooley of Michigan. The fraternity had its inception at Ann Arbor in 1869. Since then it has grown, until at present it has a strong chapter in every law school of note in the United States. Its members have occupied the most prominent places both at the bar and on the bench, and the number of them in the public eye is legion. lt is significant that of the nine judges of the United States Supreme Court six are members of the Phi Delta Phi. The Lincoln chapter was given its charter in 1895. lt has a total enrolment of 144, of whom 23 are active at present. The members of the local chapter have been uniformly of high scholarship and have been selected from year to year because of the character of their work as well as because of Congeniality. Lincoln chapter is in a very prosperous condition this year, having estab- lished itself in pleasant rooms in the Montgomery block, where it has acquired, through the kindness of faculty and alumni members. quite a legal library. A movement is now on foot to have a house hereafter where the members may live and be mutually helpful and congenial in their legal studies. All of the law faculty are members of Phi Delta Phi and have been very willing to help the fraternity in its aims and purposes. S3