Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...McNutt 3L., spoke on "The Legal Aid Bureau" of which he is president. It was founded in 1913, and was the first organization of its kind in any University in the country. It aims to give legal aid to those who have not the means to employ a lawyer. In three years it has recovered over $6,000 for its clients, and has lost only one case...
...annual dinner of the Advocate will be held at the Hotel Victoria this evening at 7 o'clock. Frederic Schenck '09, of the English Department, will act as toastmaster, and the speakers will be as follows: Richard Washburn Child '03, well-known author and lawyer; Colonel William Cary Sanger '74, former assistant-secretary of war; George Wigglesworth '74, lawyer and Overseer of the University; Thomas Tileston Baldwin '86, lawyer of Boston; and John Albert Macy '99, of the Boston Herald. The five newly elected undergraduate members of the Advocate will be taken on the board at this time...
...later life. In regard to college courses, they may all be roughly divided into those which are valuable for the information they import, and those which give ability to solve problems. The latter class, which includes such subjects as the classics and mathematics, is most useful to the lawyer, while courses in economic theory, which belongs to both classes, are also useful. The ability to write and speak clear English is also essential. College law courses, except those in international law, are apt to be confusing...
Long hours of hard, often uninteresting work are an essential part of a lawyer's life, and only diligent men can succeed. But the rewards are great. Its failures are less complete and discouraging than those of the other professions, and economically it compares favorably with any of them, except possibly that of business. Moreover the work is intensely interesting, and though not always hitched to big cases, it always concerns big principles...
Moral dangers are to be found in the legal profession as in any other. Schuyster lawyers are in demand just as are schuyster doctors, and business men. Moral courage is, therefore, another requirement for the truly successful lawyer...