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The Young Menzies the Student and Legal Notebooks of Robert Menzies Caitlin Stone and Jim Berryman The young Menzies The student and legal notebooks of Robert Menzies Caitlin Stone and Jim Berryman Robert Menzies’ early life has Prize for an English essay (1916). For frequently been overshadowed by Martin, these achievements were early his long and well-documented signs of Menzies’ ‘drive towards public political career: as a Victorian prominence and leadership’— state parliamentarian (1928–34), a ‘triumphal’ undergraduate career Commonwealth attorney-general that foreshadowed his later success.4 (1934–39) and, most notably, prime The historian Manning Clark, by minister (1939–41 and 1949–66). no means a fan of Menzies, noted: This article examines a significant ‘From that time he began to entertain and largely unknown source of the hope that there must be a place information on the life of the young somewhere where he would be Robert Menzies: his student and legal recognized as a man of consequence. notebooks. These records, held in He will find that place: the discovery Special Collections at the University will bring him great joy’.5 of Melbourne Library, form part of Personal recollections of the the larger Robert Menzies Collection, undergraduate Menzies have not which comprises his personal library always been flattering. Percy Joske, (containing some 4,000 books and a friend and contemporary at the periodicals), photograph albums and university, recalled a gifted young man ephemera.1 The notebooks, which prone to arrogance: represent the most substantial archival component of the collection, are a While Menzies’s attractive unique source for the early life of life have focused on his academic qualities won him friends, his Australia’s longest-serving prime achievements, treating his student habit of denigrating people minister. This collection has now been days as a precursor to his mature caused him to be greatly disliked. digitised, described and published life as a politician, prime minister He became a controversial figure online through the University of and statesman.3 Menzies’ official even as a young man. It was Melbourne’s digital repository.2 biographer, A.W. Martin, recounted not unusual for other people, his subject’s many prizes and who may not have possessed his The undergraduate Menzies academic achievements, including the ability but who had to measure Robert Gordon Menzies (1894–1978) Dwight Prize in British history and up to him, to discover that he was a student at the University of constitutional history (1914); the John had made derogatory remarks Melbourne from 1913 to 1918 (LLB Madden Exhibition in jurisprudence about them. This may have led to 1916, LLM 1918), with a brief and (1915); the Jesse Leggatt Scholarship the statement, afterwards often little-known stint as a tutor in 1919. in Roman law, law of contract and law repeated, that he did not suffer Most accounts of Menzies’ student of property (1915); and the Bowen fools gladly.6 Caitlin Stone and Jim Berryman, ‘The young Menzies’ 9 Previous page: Robert Menzies at his LLB graduation, 1916. Photograph courtesy the Menzies Foundation. Brian Lewis, a younger contemp- and attained the rank of lieutenant. Archives of Australia.15 Unlike those orary of Menzies and future dean of He also threw himself into extra- collections, which predominantly architecture, wrote: ‘At the University curricular life, becoming ‘a major cover Menzies’ public life in his he was a big fish in a pool depleted of campus personality’.12 He served political and prime ministerial career, males by the war; most of the males for two years as president of the the notebooks are private records. who were there were waiting to enlist Law Students’ Society and was a The Menzies notebook collection at the end of the year’.7 founding member of the Historical is composed of 21 bound items: The Great War was the defining Society.13 In early 1916, Menzies was 19 notebooks and two ring-binders. event of Menzies’ student life. In elected president of the Students’ The series ranges in date from 1913 1914, when war broke out, only two Representative Council. That year, to 1947. Twenty notebooks date of the university’s professors were he was also appointed editor of the from Menzies’ student and early Australian-born; the others came Melbourne University Magazine, professional life, from 1913 to 1925. from Britain, and ‘all rallied to the a role that appealed to Menzies’ One smaller notebook is dated imperial cause’.8 The male students organisational abilities and literary 1947, and is exclusively concerned were overwhelmingly the product interests. It involved writing much with a town planning case on which of schools in which the Empire was of the magazine content, obtaining Menzies was working at the time.16 fervently honoured.9 Menzies, a advertisements and making The notebooks dating from Menzies’ graduate of Melbourne’s exclusive arrangements for printing.14 student years typically contain Wesley College, was no exception, handwritten lecture notes, and each despite having received a government The Menzies notebooks: bears a conspicuous sign of ownership scholarship to undertake his university their scope and content (see opposite, above). He would study.10 Military training was In 1976, two years before he died, typically inscribe his name and the mandatory in Australia, but enlisting Menzies offered his personal library year, for example ‘Robert G. Menzies, for war service was voluntary. Imperial to the University of Melbourne. The 4th yr LL.B. 1916’, and the name of fervour inspired mass enlistment, collection was deposited in the Baillieu the subject, for example ‘The Law resulting in an exodus of able-bodied Library in 1980. Among the collection of Procedure and Evidence’, on the and patriotic male students: 1,723 of more than 4,000 books are nine first page of each notebook. Some University of Melbourne students photograph albums, dating from 1950 notebooks include his home address; served in the war, of whom 271 were to 1959 (when Menzies was prime for example, ‘“Lowan”, Rockley killed.11 minister), plus a set of handwritten Road, South Yarra’.17 Menzies was Despite being an enthusiastic notebooks. The notebooks are the a meticulous student; the notebooks supporter of the war and a strong earliest Menzies-related documents include few doodles or other signs advocate for conscription, Menzies held in a public collection, and pre- of distraction. never enlisted for active service. date the two major Menzies archival The notebooks are not a complete Instead he joined the University collections held by the National record of Menzies’ academic life. Rifles—the local citizens’ militia— Library of Australia and the National Records held in the University of 10 University of Melbourne Collections, issue 19, December 2016 Example of ownership signature: Robert Menzies’ student notes: ‘Equity [volume 2]’. Robert Menzies Collection, Special Collections, University of Melbourne Library. All photographs of the notebooks are by the University Digitisation Centre. Melbourne Archives tell us which Two notebooks postdate Menzies’ School, Melbourne University’. subjects Menzies studied as an student days. Dated 1919, these Menzies, of course, had not served undergraduate.18 Comparing his feature Menzies’ personalised rubber in the war and did not qualify for enrolment details with the notebook stamp, ‘Robert G. Menzies, Barrister- admission to a course such as this. collection, we can see that we possess at-Law’, and the handwritten Further investigation revealed that notebooks for fewer than half of inscription, ‘The Law of Property the Law School had employed him his subjects (the whereabouts of the in Land & Conveyancing: Special as a sessional academic in 1919.20 notebooks not held at the University Course of 12 lectures delivered 1919 This teaching appointment was of Melbourne is unknown): to Returned Soldiers of the Law instigated by a massive expansion in student numbers immediately Undergraduate subjects and notebooks after the war, as returning soldiers Year Subject studied Notebook recommenced their study in specially 1913 Latin I Not held convened course-intensive programs. 1913 Deductive Logic19 Psychology, logic, and ethics Menzies’ notebooks from this period help document an important 1913 English I Not held transitional period in campus life, 1913 Ancient History Not held which saw enrolments double from 1913 History of the British Empire I Not held 1,204 in 1917 to 2,449 in 1922.21 1914 British History II Not held Although biographers have largely 1914 European History Not held overlooked or been unaware of 1914 Political Economy Political economy: Notes 1914 Menzies’ brief teaching appointment, 1914 Constitutional History and Law I Not held it is a significant episode in his long 1915 Jurisprudence including Roman Law Not held and varied association with the 1915 Law of Property Property. Volume 4 University of Melbourne. 1915 Law of Torts Not held Menzies’ early legal career is well 1915 Constitutional History and Law II Not held represented in the notebooks (see table, p. 12). Menzies was admitted 1916 Private International Law Not held to the Victorian Bar in 1918, when 1916 Administrative Law Not held he was apprenticed to the prominent 1916 Equity Equity [volume 1] judge Owen Dixon. He became a Equity [volume 2] tenant of Selborne Chambers, the Equity [volume 3] Equity Volume IV established home of the Victorian Bar, and built a successful practice 1916 Law of Wrongs The law of wrongs, civil and criminal specialising in constitutional 1916 Law of Procedure and Evidence The law of procedure and evidence law.22 In 1920, as advocate for the 1916 Constitutional History and Law III Not held Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Caitlin Stone and Jim Berryman, ‘The young Menzies’ 11 Example of Robert Menzies’ student notes: ‘The law of wrongs, civil and criminal’. Robert Menzies Collection, Special Collections, University of Melbourne Library. he won a case in the High Court that proved a landmark in the positive reinterpretation of Commonwealth powers over the states,23 bringing Menzies ‘sudden fame’ in legal and political circles.24 Five bound items, of varying length and detail, represent this important period.
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