University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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LAW SCHOOL

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THE COLLEGE OF ARTS I see in the college the most characteristic expression of the American genius, the most important condition for the healthy development of the national life. The college is the soul of the American nation. It was my growing acquaintance with the college life that gave me ever new inspiration to tell my countrymen the story of American idealism.n These are weighty words from weighty authority, and they become the more significant, when it is realized that the demand for education industrialized, vocationalizecl, and professionalized, such as is no wbeing made, means impliedly, at least, a demand to have the American college relegated to the background, or completely abolished;uprooted, in fact, and cast into the fire, like a dead tree which is only an encumbrance to the ground. MUNSTERBERG, perhaps the most profound thinker in America today, has said: 55 51 5E 55 55 545 5h 55 34 3!- $ A5 Though feeling genuine sympathy with what has been achieved, one may well View with terror any menace of such change as would substitute workshop or even laboratory for the humanities, or that would dethrone these latter from their rightful place of im- memorial sovereignty. In doing homage to these, the college as such stands, at least in theory, for that quintessential principle of education and indeed of all fruitful thinking and doing: disinterestedness. Arithmetic, Plato affirms, is an excellent preliminary to philosophical study, llif pursued for the love of knowledge and not in the spirit of a shopkeeper. For that spirit of disinterestedness which is the antithesis to this shopkeeping spirit against which Plato warns, the American college stands, and therefore it is worthy of our utmost support and loyalty. 35 a: -$ 55 5F 55 95 A5 55 55 55 5!- I am glad that it is still possible to utter the words llAlma Materf, with thankfulness, not because she gives us a trade or profession, but because she gives us a soul; because, when going forth from her halls we seem to hear her voice, like the voice of the angel of old to the faithful within the church, saying: iiBehold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. A door that will shut at no man,s bidding, but stands always open to the inflooding apocalypse of infinity,-that is the true meaning of being an alumnus.ame the Inaugural Address of Prof. C. E. Hull.

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l t M THE LAW SCHOOL T is difficult to write interestingly concerning the quiet and gradual growth of any institution or department of learning. Education and intellectual growth and culture were never intended to be exhibited, nor can they be measured by yard sticks or adequately illustrated by statistics. The Law School is its students, its faculty and its alumni. These are nearly all living, and can hardly be personally dealt with. It is by examining them and their work alone, however, that any idea of the work or usefulness of the school can be obtained. They are for exhibition, each of them, the weakest and the strongest. It is believed that on the whole an examination will not disappoint the investigator who really has the welfare of the state at heart. The Law School is but eleven years old, yet it has made its impress. It is gaining recognition in the educational world, and its alumni have, in the main, been good citizens and have been successful. It has recently been admitted to the American Association of Law Schools, and this fact is proof that its standards are as high, in fact much higher, than those of the majority of its competitors. There are, in fact, not more than fifty law schools out of the two hundred or more now conducted in the United States whose standards are high enough to admit them to membership in that Association. The school offers three- year, four-year, five-year ancl six-year courses of study. It is well co-ordinated with the general work of the University. Though but eleven years old, nineteen of its alumni have been, or now are, state,s attorneys, five have been, or now are, county judges, seven are members of the state legislature, either senators or representatives, one of its number is a trustee of the State University, another is a trustee of the State School of Science, another is a member of the Commission on the Reform of the Probate Code, and one is Secretary of State. Many others hold important offices and appointments, and nearly all are successful practitioners. It is, in fact, believed that few law schools can make a better showing it regard be had to numbers and to years of life.