University of Pennsylvania Law School - Report Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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As I was driving home from the Law School one Sunday afternoon I turned on the car radio. A minister was talking with evident yearning about a millennium characterized by uniform goodness and perfect human felicity. Perhaps such a state of affairs is just what there should be in a future life, but I must confess that it presented little current appeal to me in this world in which we live and move. Maybe I am so utterly lawyer- minded that I cannot accommodate myself to a scheme of things in which there is no occasion for striving or for thought and work directed to the better ordering of human relations. Of course, we all know that we would be hard put in what we call our real world in evaluating human af- fairs were there not contrast and differenCCSewere there not good and evil, the sweet and the bitter. It is differen- tiation and discrimination, which help to give content to ideas and which afford us some basis for value judg- ments. How can there be intellectual traction without them? It is not purely academic to refer to these things, how- ever far we may be from the millennium. The point I am getting to is that the impact of an individual upon society is likely to depend more upon his discriminating judgment and the strength of his devotion to what he believes to be the good and the just than upon the quality of his vocational competence. In extending the very warmest good wishes to the members of the class of 1958 for both professional success and personal fulfillment, I am thinking particularly of the flowering of human character. I like to think that each member of the group has the basic formal training upon which to build high professional competence. Far beyond that, I wish for each member the unrelenting waging of the good hght through fair weather and foul. If he struggles manfully, according to his own best lights, to maintain the balance on the side of fair play and decency in human relations, the game will surely be worth the candle for him as well as for society. W 6. KM

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WE DESIRE, in the pages that follow, to portray pictorially some of the facets of the life of the law student at Penn, both curricular and extra-curricular, Which com- prise the three years spent in the Law School. As Will be seen, our emphasis is on photographs, rather than text, as a means of telling the story of What law school life entails. The rationale for this ap- proach is that the people Who are caught by the camerais eye are What really make an event dis- tinctive, and to make this Yearbook as interesting as possible, the limitations of the printed page were believed to be too constrictive. A book of this na- ture, showing law students and faculty members engaged in some typical, and some not so typical law school activities, will serve to remind the reader of his law school days, and should reawaken his memories of the persons and events Which made law school a unique and not-to-be forgotten ex- perience.