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University of Chicago Law School Chicago Unbound The nivU ersity of Chicago Law School Record Law School Publications Winter 1-1-1957 Law School Record, vol. 6, no. 1 (Winter 1957) Law School Record Editors Follow this and additional works at: http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/lawschoolrecord Recommended Citation Law School Record Editors, "Law School Record, vol. 6, no. 1 (Winter 1957)" (1957). The University of Chicago Law School Record. Book 17. http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/lawschoolrecord/17 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Publications at Chicago Unbound. It has been accepted for inclusion in The University of Chicago Law School Record by an authorized administrator of Chicago Unbound. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume 6 Number 1 der control. With this went an extraordinarily warm heart, great kindliness, and lively sympathy always for the poor, the friendless, and the oppressed. His wit was quick and keen and occasionally a bit caustic, his mind alert, his judg ment excellent. He carrie to Chicago in 1874 and for many years there after was continuously in the trial of jury cases, literally going from one courtroom to another, day after day. He was a fmn believer in trial by jury as one of the great bul warks of our liberties; but he also thought that in civil cases trial by jury as at common law should be restored; that judges should be permitted to charge juries orally, without written instructions, and to comment on the facts. He once said he thought he had tried five or six hundred jury cases, perhaps more, though in the last fifteen years or so of his life most of his cases came from other and Mr. Tappan Gregory during his lecture in Breasted Hall lawyers very frequently after they had been lost in the lower court. After his first few years at the Bar, he became associated with the firm of Tenney and Flower. Dan Tenney, senior Stephen Strong Gregory member, was an uncle ofHorace Kent Tenney, who was for By TAPPAN GREGORY, ESQ. years at the head of the Bar of Chicago, and father of Henry F. Tenney, who stands in the same high position to A lecture given by Mr. Gregory in October, 1956 at The Law day-a worthy and distinguished son, ably carrying on in a the best tradition of his School. The lecture is thefirst in series of lectures on eminent illustrious sire. My father used to lawyers. quote Dan Tenney as saying that every well-organized law office should have at least one lawyer in it. It is with no little diffidence that J present the observations At the request of Clarence Darrow, he joined in the de that follow, for Stephen Strong Gregory was my father. fense of Debs in the contempt and conspiracy proceedings He and I were very close to each other, and it was my good before Judges Woods and Grosscup in the United States fortune to be associated with him professionally for the last Circuit Court in Chicago-without compensation. He held ten of his life. I not wish to him to as the that labor were years do picture you opinion unions legitimate and necessary a paragon of any sort. He had his faults; he made mistakes in affording the laboring man adequate protection of his as all men do; he was human. rights and that the members of a union had a right to strike He was in New on and to others to strike. But bor� Unadilla, York, November !6, urge he believed that every moved to at effort should to 1849; Madison, Wisconsin, the age of eight; be made adjust controversies between em and was educated at the University of Wisconsin, where ployer and employee by voluntary arbitration before re he took his to A.B. and LL.B. degrees in 1870 and I87!, re sorting strikes; and he always counseled earnestly against spectively. Later he declined an honorary LL.D. degree any action involving force or violence, threats of violence, from the same or efforts to institution because he did not favor degrees intimidate those whom it was sought to per not representing actual work done. suade. In his younger days he was possessed of a very quick Eugene V. Debs was president of the American Railway temper, which of un- years self-discipline brought largely Continued on page 16 2 The Law School Record Vol. 6, NO.1 The Class of 1959 When the academic year I956-57 began last October, one of the largest entering classes in the School's history began the work of the first year. One hundred and forty-two stu dents, chosen from among 48I applicants, made up the en tering class. As in the past, many alumni have expressed an interest as to the origins of the student body, both in terms of their home communities and of the colleges from which they re ceived their undergraduate education. The current student body consists of 323 students who have attended 172 dif ferent colleges and universities located in all parts of the United States and in foreign countries. Institutions current The Wormser Scholar: Dallin H. Oaks, Provo, Utah; A.B., Brigham ly represented by members of the student body are: Young University. University of Alabama Georgetown University Albion College Goethe University American Conservatory of University of Grenoble Music Grinnell College Amherst College University of Hamburg Antioch College Hamilton College Armstrong College of Savannah Harvard University University of Athens Haverford College Aurora College University of Hawaii Austin College Hebrew University Baghdad Law School Holy Cross, College of the Bard College Hope College Bates College University of Illinois Beloit College Illinois Institute of Technology Boston University Indiana University Bowdoin College James Millikin University Bradley University John Marshall Law School Brandeis University Joliet Junior College Brigham Young University Kalamazoo College of British Columbia of Kansas University . University Brooklyn College Kent University Brown University University of Kentucky Mawr The Class of 1915 Scholar: Robert Zener, A.B., Bryn University Kenyon College Pittsburgh; University of Buffalo Lafa London School Economics. University yette College of Chicago; of University of California (L.A.) Lake Forest College Calvin College Lincoln University Carleton College London School of Economics Central State College Louisiana State University University of Chicago University of Louisville City College of New York Loyola University Colby College Macalester College Colgate University University of Maine University of Colorado Marquette University Columbia University Maryville College University of Connecticut Mercer University Cornell College (Iowa) Mexico City College Cornell University University of Michigan Culver-Stockton College Michigan State University Dartmouth College University of Mississippi Davidson College Morehouse College De Paul University Morningside College DePauw University Marion Junior College Drake University Murray State College Drew University University of Nebraska Earlham College Nebraska Wesleyan University Elmhurst College University of New Mexico Emory University New Mexico Military Institute Far Eastern of North Dakota The Raymond Scholars: Amy Scupi, New York; A.B., Queens Col University University University of Genova University College of North Walter Clements, South Notre lege; Bend; A.B., University of Dame; George Washington Law Staffordshire A.M., University of Ottawa. School Northwestern University Vol. 6, NO.1 The University of Chicago Law School 3 Notre Dame University Stanford University Oberlin College University of Stockholm Ohio State University Swarthmore College Ohio Wesleyan University Syracuse University University of Oregon University of Talladega University of Ottawa Temple University Palos Verdes College Texas Christian University University of Pennsylvania Texas Western University Pepperdine College Thornton Junior College Pomona College University of Toronto Princeton University Trinity College Puget Sound, College of Tufts College Purdue University Union Theological Seminary Queens College University of Tubingen Reed College United States Coast Guard Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Academy Rice Institute University of British Columbia Ripon College Valparaiso University University of Rochester Vanderbilt University Roosevelt University University of Virginia Rutgers University Wabash College The Blake Scholar: Robert Martineau, Oconto, Wisconsin; B.S., Col St. Bonaventure University Washington State College lege ofthe Holy Cross, Milwaukee. St. John's College Washington University St. Joseph College Washington and Jefferson Col- St. Louis University lege St. Mary of the Lake Seminary Wayne University St. Mary's College Wesleyan University St. Olaf College Western College for Women Sampson College Western Kentucky State Teach- University of Santo Tomas ers College Shimer College Wheaton College University of South Dakota Whitman College Southeast Missouri State Col- Whittier College lege Wilson Junior College Un�versity of Southern Califor- University of Wisconsin ma Wittenberg College University of Southern Illinois Woodrow Wilson City College Sorbonne, The Wright Junior College Southern Methodist University Yale University From the point of view of geographic origin, members of the current student body represent thirty-five states, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, and ten countries foreign The Mary Beecher Scholar: Mrs. Miriam Chesslin Feigelson, New as follows: York; A.B., Western Collegefor Womell, Miami, Ohio. Alabama North Dakota Arkansas South Dakota California Ohio Colorado Oklahoma Connecticut Oregon District