YMCA Night Law School - Triangle Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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it Nw fq I T Ze tes-get - 4 ,- zg- .: ,Ll ':'.jf- --.xfbfvqlig Qui' Common Task Wini. Howard Taft, in 1919 said - N ever in the history of the world is the profession of the law to play a greater part than in the century to follow this great upheaval of fundamental elements of society. CReferring to the Wlorld VVar.D A great responsibility and unusual privilege belongs to the group of men and Women who make up the present student body in the Y lVI C A School of Law. The Faculty and the Committee of Administration of the Law School believe that they have an equal responsibility in presenting to students the maximum opportunity for the development, not only of knowledge and technical ability, but of those other attributes which are peculiarly necessary to the lawyer who would serve his generation largely. If a lawyer is to function properly, he will be a defender of the principle of private right, and he will also assert the necessity of the public wheel. In this increasingly complex civilization, economic and social happiness will depend upon an even balance between the two. A proper appreciation of fundamental values in society is essential in the mind and the life of a lawyer. The Faculty and governing Boards and Committees of the Y NI C A School of Law join with the students in the development of those qualities in the lecture room, through personal contacts, and extra curricular activities. L, G. NICHOLS. IQ

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. - . , ,gysxi 'Y 'V ' .f Y fwxffx rfxfima. -sw,-N 5,-1 - !1,f'-3 - W- 2255122- Board of Directors Young Nleifs Christian Association of Cincinnati and Hamilton County CECIL H. GAMBLE .... .,....... P resident A. E. ANDERSON.. . . . . . . Vice-President H. IV. HUTCHINS. .. ...... .Secretary .JOHN M. STONER ..... . ....., ......,....... T reasrfrer Robert A. Colter Dr. E. E. Eubank Charles Handman Fred K. Hoehler Erwin NIarx D. B. IVIeacham J. B. hIiller James hlorrison Dr. VV. T. Nelson C. H. Peterinan Harry G. Pounsford Roger K. Rogan Edward P. Rush Judge Stanley Struble Charles P. Taft, Qnd Dr. Charles VVeber COMMITTEE OF MANAGEIVIENT Cincinnati Y hi C A Schools Erwin hlarx, Chairinan VV. S. LaRue J. Ewing Blaine, Jr. Sanford Headley A. L. Behyiner Joseph J. Viner COMNIITTEE OF ADMINISTRATION Law School Sanford Headley, Attorney at Law VValter A. Knight, Attorney at Law Herbert Shaffer, Attorney at Law OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION J UDSON J. MCKIM .... . ...... .....,.............,........ . General Secretary, Young Illerfs Clzristian Association of 01-fl.Cll7L7lClli'h and Hamilton County LEON G. NICHOLS. . ......... Director, C'incz7nnati Y M C' A Schools GILBERT BETTMAN .... . ...... ........., . Dean of Lau: School CHARLES H. ELs'roN .... . . .A.v.s'1'.stant Dean of Law School ROY H. HARRIS ..... . ......... Supervisor rj Lau: School 11

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-1-x r ss' is . get Sy.. W, ,4 4' A 4 History of the Y M C A Law School The Young hfenis Christian Association Night Law School traces its origin back to the year 1885 as a result of the combined thinking of Robert M. Ochiltree, Attorney, and George T. Howser, General Secretary of the Cincinnati Y BI C A. Beginning with the humble intention of providing a course in commercial law, its plan of offering night legal instruction received such enthusiastic support that it became the third law school of its kind in America. Its first candi- dates, six students, were successful in passing the Bar Examination in 1896. In 1900 the Night Law School was given permission by the State of Ohio to grant the Bachelor of Law CLL.B.D Degree, and at the June Commencement of that year, sixty-seven young attorneys were graduated and awarded the degree. Until 1919 the school offered a three-year course of study leading to a degree, but in the effort to keep abreast of the modern tendency toward a more thorough preparation in the law, the School in that year added a fourth year of study. This was done so that the students would receive as thorough alegal training as those who attended a three-year day law school, and this action enabled the School to take its place as one of the leading evening law schools of the country. Following this lead for greater thoroughness of preparation in the law, the Ohio Supreme Court, in hlay, 19Q3, adopted the requirement CSection 10 of Rule HD of four years of study where the student does not give his entire time to the study of the law, which follows almost verbatim the suggestions offered by Gilbert Bettman, Dean of the School, at. the conference held by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court with representatives of law schools of the state. When opponents of the four-year plan claimed that it was impracticable, it was pointed out that the Cincinnati Y ll C A Night Law School had been functioning since the year 1919 under this four-year plan, and this fact had great weight in influencing the adoption of the Supreme Court rule requiring four years of study. On October 15, 1926, the entrance requirements increased from that of a standard high school to a pre-requisite of one year of collegeg since October 15, 1927, two years of college work has been required and the school is ever endeavoring to raise the standard of scholarship. Despite the increasing requirements, the School has grown steadily. Beginning with just one instructor, the Faculty has enlarged to twenty-seven, while graduates of the School number over seven hundred. Many of the leading jurists and attorneys of Cincinnati have been and are now serving on the Faculty and many of the graduates of the School have become leaders in the professional and community life of t.he city. Rox' H. I-Isusis. S1lYI6l'l'?.SOI' 141.1116 Lau' Sclmril. 13