Portrait, Law Class and Law Class History

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1 Digital Georgia Law Other Law School Publications Archives Portrait, Law Class and Law Class History University of Georgia School of Law Repository Citation University of Georgia School of Law, "Portrait, Law Class and Law Class History" (1898). Other Law School Publications This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives at Digital Georgia Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Other Law School Publications by an authorized administrator of Digital Georgia Law. Please share how you have benefited from this access For more information, please contact tstriepe@uga.edu.

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3 Caw Class Officers. W. B. KENT... President. HARRY DODD... Vice-President. TROY KELLY... Historian. PETER FREER.... Secretary. S. R. WALKER... Pres. Moot Parliament. B. J. FOWLER... Pres. Debating Club. J. H. McINTOSH... Captain Football. W. R. TICHENOR... Captain Baseball. 59

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5 Caw Class, Name.,. Address. J. O. Adams... Hampton. Chas. Akerman, N Athens. W. D. Anderson Madison. W. M. Bailey.... Washington, D. C. S. B. Baker... Irvington. S. E. Bayless, X Y Kingston. J. L. P. Bernard, K A....'... Paris, France. E. W. Born Norcross. H. H. Chandler Lavonia. W. N. Colquitt, A E... Atlanta. W. F. Crawley, 5 N Waycross. B. S. Curtis... Ashville, N. C. Harry Dodd, X Y Ford. *A. S. Dunbar, K A Augusta. C. G. Edwards, S N Daisy. H. C. Erwin, A E Athens. B. J. Fowler, A T fl Milledgeville. John Gibson Monroe. S. H. Gillis '.,.'! Omaha. *J. W. Goodrum Athens. W. M. Goodwin... Atlanta. G. T. Jackson, 5 A E Augusta. W. T. Johnson, 5 A E Savannah. W. T. Kelly, A T A Monticello. A. D. Kent, N Savannah. W. B. Kent... Glenwood. *J. I. Killorin, 5 N '. Savannah. R. M. Lester, 4> A Savannah. J. H. Lewis :. Thomaston. Roy Lewis, ATfi ,.. Richmond, Va. J. H. Mclntosh, 5AE.... Marietta. T. H. McKey, N Valdosta. *J. F. Mitchell, * A Thomasville. *Lef i College. 61

6 Name. J. T. Moore. J. A. Perry. Peter Preer, A T 0. *G. W. Price, <t> A 0. C. L. Smith, 5 N. E. E. Spurlin J. W. Stone.. W. R. Tichenor, K A *Eppes Tucker, Jr. W. D. Tutt, A T Q J. R. Walker, N B. M. Wall, A T Q *C. B. Weatherly, R. P. White.. *Left College. Address. Jackson. Lawrenceville.. Columbus.. Atlanta. Valdosta. Lowry. Athens. Atlanta. Bartow, Fla. Elberton. Blackshear. Augusta... Buchanan. Rome. 62

7 Caw Class fiistcry. FORSAN ET HAEC OLIM MEMINISSE JUVABIT. Vergil. w"hen, on the fifteenth day of September, 1897, there assembled in the Ivy Building forty young men with the purpose of pur suing the study of the law, hopeful, ambitious, and little dreaming of the many difficulties which would beset their path, few realized that that day marked the birth of a class destined to play the lead ing role in college affairs, and to live long in the his tory and traditions of the University. It is true that it is the common custom of class historians to indulge in fulsome flattery of the subjects of their sketches, often with reckless disregard of the truth, and it is an estab lished maxim, we are told, that " malus usus abolendus est;" yet the record of the present Law Class bears out the assertion that in every respect it excels all its predecessors. A greater number of law students matriculated this year than ever before, and we hope that a greater number than ever before will receive diplomas at commencement. The intellectual standard is unusually high. Twenty members of the class are college graduates, and the record made in the classroom is admitted by the faculty to surpass that of any previous class. In every department of student life the lawyers have quitted them selves like men. Our class furnished the captain of the Football Team and the captain and the manager of the Baseball Team. Seven lawyers were on the 'Varsity Eleven, and four on the.'varsity Nine. We won the pennant in the series of class games, losing not a single game, and also won the pennant given by the young ladies of Lucy Cobb Institute to the class winning the greatest number of points on fieldday. The college record for mile runs, pole vault, and throwing the hammer, were broken by lawyers, and the running high jump record was tied. Four of our class are members of the Thalians. In the literary societies we have received our share of honors. The presidents of these bodies have been selected principally from the Law Class ; the anniversarian of one of the societies, and one of the Georgia-Mercer debaters were members of our class. We are well represented in all the social organizations, and are the first Law Class to give a commencement german. 63

8 While our class is, perhaps, not so homogeneous as some of the others which have enjoyed a longer collegiate existence, yet with the greater part there prevails a wonderful spirit of good fellowship always characteristic of the legal profession. We can not fail to cherish always tender recollections of the days we have spent together during^ our studies here. With what pleasure do we now recall every incident in our history ; our struggleswith the common law, the sultry autumn afternoons we labored with constitutional law, our efforts to solve the mysteries of misjoinder and nonjoinder, cy pres and absque hoc, the oft-recurring examinations t and the never-ending litigation of " John Milledge " and "Abraham Baldwin." And now our college days are over. Yet for us our graduation day is indeed but a commence ment. We are about to leave the theoretical paths of college for the practical highways of life. What the future has in store for us depends largely upon our efforts. The fault will be " not with our stars,, but with ourselves, if we are underlings." Whatever success we may achieve, or whatever reverses and disappointments we may suffer, may we " So live, that when our summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, We go not like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach our graves Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." With feelings of kindest gratitude to our instructors, with a pledge of undying friendship to< our classmates, and with our best wishes for those who shall follow us here, we say farewell and are. gone from this scene forever. HISTORIAN.