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BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LAvV SCHOOL

By an act of the Indiana General Assembly m 1816, it became possible for a law school to be provided for the State, "as soon as circumstances will permit" This was followed by a senes of statutes. The statute of 1838 declared that one of the purposes for which the State University was establi shed was the education of youth in the science of law Although the organization of the Law School as an integral part of the Univ­ ersity was thus provided for early m the Const1tut1on, it did not become a part of the mst1tut1on until l 842, when it was formally opened. It is sigmfi.cant of the purpose of the founders that the official announcement of the opening set forth the purpose of the trustees as "nothing less than the upbuildmg of a

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law school that shall be mfen or to none west of the mountams, one 111 wb.ich students shall be so tramed that they shall never, 111 the attorney , forget the scholar and the gentleman" Therefore, the purpose of the Law School is three­ fold-" To enable the student to build up, by his 111du ctive study of cases and statutes, an organized knowledge of English and Amen can Law, to t ram him 111 the habit of legal analysis of the concrete problems with which pract1c111g lawyers h ave to deal, to develop 111 him a keen sense of professional ideals and a regard for legal ethics" The Law School continued from 1842 until 1877, when the department was forced to be d1s cont111ued, due to an act of the Legislature cutt111g the salaries of the professors until competent men could not be secured. This department was out of the University until 1889, when the Board of Trustees made provision for its reestablishment in the next academic year The Law School was ongmall y located 111 a downtown build111 g, but u pon tr.e completion of Maxwell Hall, it was moved to the buildmg where the present offices are located. Due to its rapid growth, the Law School was moved 111to Kirkwood Hall and later, owmg to the contmued growth, it was moved mto Wylie Hall. In 1907 it was agam moved mto Maxwell Hall. The library of the Law School now numbers about twelve thousand five hundred bound volumes of law reports, statutes, law treatises and law penodicals It mcludes complete sets of decisions of forty-six states, Umted States reports, Federal Cases, Federal Reports, the entire National Report System, complete sets of the English Law reports since 1865, a considerable number of earlier Eng­ lish Reports, the English R epnnts, the English Revised Reports, all the pnnc1pal collateral Senes of Amencan Reports, the pnnc1pal digest s, and about fourteen hundred volumes of law treatises It also contains all the statutes and sessio n laws of the many states and terntones of the Umted States The library 1s tl--e second largest 111 the State of Indiana, the State House library bemg larger The course of study 111 the Law School consists of four sessions, two of tb.ese sessions being each ye"a r The students are divided mto JUmors and semors, however, anyone who has attamed elsewhere sufficient knowledge of the law may be admitted to the semor class Instruction 111 this department is given b y means of lectures and text books. Heretofore, the required course of study for the L.L. B D egree remamed at two years. I n 1901 it was lengthened to three year's work. The pre-legal entrance reqmrements were at first somewhat elastic. The candidate for a law degree "must satisfy the faculty of the school that he is pre­ pared by previous training to enter upon the required course of study" In 1899, a four-year high school course was fi xed as a mmimum pre-legal education for an L.L.B. candidate I n 1909, the entrance requnements were mcreased to one year of college credit and 111 1910 to two y ears of college credit. The school year consists of two eighteen-week semesters and a term of twelve weeks 111 the summer To complete the course 111 the department, six semesters are reqmred. The mstru ction used is the case method with the requ irement of collateral readmg

On e Hundred Seventy-two BUSKIRK, President SCHULTZ, Orator BROWNE, Sec'y-Treas.

THE 1920 LA w CLASS

BROWNE, ARTHUR ALBERT Fortville, Indiana. BucKs, ALBERT L. B loomington, Indiana. L aw D elta Tau D elta, Phi , Sphinx Law Phi Delta Phi. Club, Umon Board ' 1 8 - ' 1 9-'20, Pan H ellernc Council ' 17-'18, Business l\1gr U mon Senes ' 20, Sec.-Treas. Sr Law Class, Adv Comm U nion Revue '20.

BowsER, HAROLD JoHN S yracuse, Indiana. BRIDENHAGER, GEORGE LEwrs Princeton, Law , Gamma Eta Gamma, I ndiana. Law Sphinx Club, Varsity Football ' 16 - ' 17 ' 19.

BROWN BRIDENHAGER B UCKS Bows ER One Hundred Seventy-three WALKER BUSKIRK SCHULTZ :\!IcfADDEN

WAL KER, RAYMON D LESTER Danville, K NACKE L , FIREMAN FILMORE North J udson, I ndiana Law, Phi Gamma D elta, Phi D elta I ndiana. Law Masonic Frater111ty, Phi Phi Delta Phi, Moot Court Pnze 'fl, Freshman Track ' 14, Varsity Football '15 , Varsity Track B usKIRK, ALLEN VAN Bloomington, Indiana. ' 15 Law, Phi Kappa P s1, Phi Delta Phi, Senior Law President, A.B 1915, Indiana University

ScHULTZ, HARRY PETER A ttica, Indiana HIATT, PHARES N Richmond, I ndiana. Law , Economics Club, Presi­ Law Kappa Sigma, Travelers Club, Lincoln dent Marquette '15-'16, Pres Jackson Club '15- Club, Phi Delta Phi, Football ' 16-'17-' 19, 16, U111on nominating Board ' 16, Union d!fec­ Baseball '17-' 18, Track '19, Y M . C. A. tor ' 16-'17, Pres Indiana U111on '16-'17, Busi­ Cabinet. ness Mgr Union Revue ' 16, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, Tau Kappa Alpha, Mu Beta, Sphmx Club, Extension Debates '1 4-'15' 16, Senior Class Pres '16, Senior Law Orator '20, HYLTON, LERTIE M. B rownsburg, Indiana. Arbutus Edit. Board ' 16, A.B Indiana U111ver­ Law Orchestra and Band s1ty, 1916.

McFADDEN, JOHN M. Rockville, Indiana Law , Treasurer Booster's Club STEVENSON, }EwEL A. Danville, Indiana ' 17, Phi Delta Phi, Wm. L. Bryan app01nted Law Vice-Pres of Org of Unorg 1920, to J R. Plattsburg Camp, '18, Cadet Colonel Gamma Eta Gamma, D ebating Team '15, Glee R. 0 T C. ' 17-' 18 Club ' 15-' 19, Pres. D emurrer Club

/ KNACHEL HIATT / HYLTON STEVENSON One Hundred Seventy-four GIRTON GOLDMAN GRAY LINDSEY

GIRTON, CARL Shelbyville, Indiana. Law DUNCAN, KENNETH R. Terre Haute, Indiana , Garnck Club, Brownmg Law , Phi Delta Phi, Arbu­ Society, Phi D elta Phi, Arbl)tus Staff '16-'20. tus Staff '20.

EDRIS, ]oHN H Bluffton, Indiana. Law GoLDMAN, BuEL Monroe City, Indiana. Kappa Sigma, Sphmx Club, Booster's Club Law. President French Club History and '18-'19, Pres Booster's Club '19, Un10n Board Political Science Club, Se'cy of Org of Unorg, of Direc. '20, Phi Delta Phi, Arbutus Staff Phi Beta Kappa, A.B., Indiana Umversity, '18-'19, Umon Revue Cast '14-'15 1918 WEINHARDT, CARL J Terre Haute, Indiana Law Alpha Tau Omega, Sphmx Club, Phi GRAY, HERJ\'.!AN B. Marion, Indiana. Law Delta Phi, Tau Kappa Alpha, Inter-Collegiate Phi _Kappa Psi, Phi Delta Phi, Sigma Delta Debatmg '16, Glee Club '16-'17-'18, Garnck Chi,- Asst. Dept . of Athletics, Varsity Track Club '16-'17-'18, Pan-Hellemc Council '17-'18- ' 19-' 20, Arbutus Board of Editors '20, Editor­ '19, Pres Hellemc Council '19, Indiana Umon n1i" C:h1ef Ind Daily Stud Summer ' 19. Board '17-'18-'19, Pres Indiana Umon 20.

SPENCER, w ALTER vV Veedersburg, Indiana. LINDSEY, ERMEL E M uncie, Indiana. Law Alpha Tau Omega, Jackson Club,\De­ Law Masomc Fratermty, Booster's Club, Phi murrer Club, Gamma Eta Gamma, Glee Club Delta Phi, Law Libranan '15-'16.

DUNKIN EDRIS WEINHARDT SPENCER One Hundred Seventy-five •

LEFFLER BOWERS LA.\IIAR Srns

LEFLER, PAUL E. Muncie, Indiana. Law B1cc s, JosEPH Bloomington, I ndiana. Law , Plu Delta Phi. Demurrer Club, A.B Indiana University

SENA, GREGORIO A. Tagbilas, Tayabas, BowERS, LEE M. Huntington, Indiana Philippine Islands Law, Cosmopolitan Club, Law Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Phi, Sphinx Demurrer Club, A.B. University of Philippines, Club, Jvlu Beta, Baseball '16, Band '13 to '20, 1916. Orchestra '13 to '17

McCLANAHAN, FRANK A. Largo, Indiana. LA MAR, GRESTER HAL. Bloomington, Ind. Law Demurrer Club, Watsons MacDonald Law Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Treatise, Junior :Moot Court Pnze.

SIMMS, HAROLD W Mulberry, Indiana RALSTON, JuLIAN C. Indianapolis, Indiana. Law Demurrer Club, Masonic Fraternity, Law Phi Gamma Delta, Phi D elta Phi. A.B. Phi Delta Phi. Indiana University 1917

Brees McCLANAHAN RALSTON One Hundred Seventy-Six

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w E TRAINOR Vice-President

c M. GRAY Secretary-Treasurer

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THE DEM U RRER CLUB

OR many years the students of the school of Law of Indiana Umversity, Fhave co-ord111ated their efforts through the Demurrer Club. The orgamzation, s111ce its formation, has expressed the ideas of the students and faculty of the Law School. The Club was re-orgamzed this year under a new constitution and a new set of by-laws.

The aims and objects of the Club are, That the faculty and students of the School of Law and many future students of law, now engaged 111 pre-legal en­ deavors, possess a keen realization of the grave problems now confront111g this country and the world. It 1s ardently believed that a proper solution of such problems can be had only by JUSt and fair application and amplification of the principles of law as developed s111ce 1215-pnnciples to which the hopes and v isions of mank111d have been anchored for more than seven centunes The responsibility for the enforcement, 111terpretation, and development of the law is upon the legal profession, a profession stand111g today at the Bar of the World Forum, plead111g a cause the success of which means for the world happiness, prosperity and good cheer , the failure of which means anarchy, famme, and ch aos.

It is of surpeme importance that every effort be made to ennoble the profes­ sion from its already exalted pos1t1on, not only to achieve a su ccessful adjudica­ t ion of present tribulations, but also to msure for the future a social foundation based upon principles of JU St1ce and n ghteousness so firm and secure as to be msensible to the most violent attacks.

Furthermore, the objects and aims of the D emurrer Club shall be to teach and mculcate a proper understandmg of the ethics of the legal profession, to msist upon a high standard of scholarship , to combat contmu ally the still pre­ valent idea that the practice of law is an mherent nght rather than one of the greatest dist111ct1ons and pnvileges that society can confer, to brmg active members of the Indiana Bar mto closer umon w ith the students and with the work of the School of Law of Indiana Umversity, to mculcate mto those of proper character and tra111ing, a greater 111-i:erest 111 the study of the law, to promote acqua111tances and mutual understand111g among the legal and pre-legal students of Indiana U111vers1ty

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GA}.tINIA ETA GAM tIA

AMMA Eta Gamma was founded at the U111vers1ty of tlaine by Judge G Gardner of the Boston Bar It was founded w ith a two-fold purpose of promot111g good fellowship and ma111ta111111g high ideals among the students of law Tb.e fraternity has grown rapidly and has chapters 111 the leadmg law schools of the country Numerous alum111 assoc1at1ons have been formed. Eligibility for membership 1s based primarily upon scholarship and prommence 111 school act1v1t1 es Eta Chapter was 111stalled 111 191 l The fraternity ma111ta111s club proms 111 the Student Buildmg.

The active members, as they appear 111 the picture, are

First Colttmn Second Column Third Column EldoH. Wood \.\/alter Spencer Gilbert Adams William R. Rirn1er Heber T Gill Buell A. McDonald Hobart Hancock Ivan ~I iller H arold :3owser William H oadley Justin Shuman H erman E . Schuler Posey T Kime Fou1th Column Fifth Column vValter Treamor William L. Reed Alvin J Stiver Schuyler C. Mowrer A. J Stevenson Fra1i"k S. Pennington F S. Faucett Carl :vr. Gray William D. Rollison

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PHI DELTA PHI

HI Delta Phi ·was founded m 1869 at the University of Michigan by John PM. Howard. The pnnc1pal purpose of the fraternity is toma111tam a high stand­ ard among the students of law, lay111g particular emphasis upon scholarship. At present the fraternity consists of forty-six active chapters located 111 the lead111g Amencan Law Schools. There are also seventeen alumni organizations. Foster chapter was. mstalled at Indiana University in 1900. The fraternity ma111ta111s club rooms in Maxwell Hall.

The active members as they appear 111 the picture, are

First Column Second Column Third Colu111 n Arthur A. Browne P aul i\I. Leffier P rof. J J M. Lafolette H arry P Schultz Walter B. Lang Dean Charles M. H epburn Firman F Knaebel Albert L. Bucks P rof. Warren A. Seavev Lee l\11. Bowers Carl] vVeinhardt Prof. P aul V Mc:\"utt· Herman B. Gray Robert Kelso F ourth Colu111 11 Fifth Column Julian C. Ralston Allen V Buskirk John M. M cf addin Kenneth R. Dunkin Frank Heidenger Winsdor B. Harris John H . Edris Ermil E. Lindsey Ph a re s ~- Hiatt

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.Ho Cerberus of legal Lore, vVho gu ards the Law Libe's volumes musty, May you be with us evermore, \i\Tith ago-old texts and JOkes so rusty

D epartmg may we bear away, A bit of your faith, gift of Gods, To bet Good Fortunes come to stay, And back our team agamst all odds.

vVant the "dope" on some exam, On latest scandal, new professor? Just saunter up and question Sam, You'il thmk you're his death-bed confessor

Somt1me, to our postenty, vVith note-book heirlooms, tales JUd1c1al, (If Time will long show chanty,) vVe'll leave ,the Libe and this official.

011e Hundred Eighty-four