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

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. f X.,-u 1 ,fi -SX 've I ' f ' rx? To the Faculty N grateful appreciation do we honor and respect our Instructors in the Study and Purpose of the Law. The hours they spend With us, patiently, unfailingly, might be more comfortably turned to relaxation from pressing cares and duties of the day's practice. Real teachers of the World are above mere pedagogyg they are in fact the World's most useful workers, however poorly paid in money. Theirs must be the satisfaction of labor exalted, of glory in prospect of the future achievements of their scholars. Noble is the effort of a master to inspire those who in all earnestness attend his classes. Helping men and women to learn to think intelli- gently must be indeed a happy task for competent representatives of the profession. In the process of education, truth survives. Truth will make us free of earth's greatest curse-ignorance, and the superstition bred of it. For your effort, then, in this generous service, we salute you, our Faculty! 14

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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

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, ,-'ip FACULTY of the Law School