Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-04
WOMEN AND The LAW.
FEMININE STUDENTS NOW Al
TEND LEGAL LECTURES.
The University Of the City Of New YOrk Has q
Lecture Chair Endowed Tor The Pur-
pose Of Helping Women.

The first woman lawyer we hear Of bar
gained for a heart. New Gorls's WOMEN
law students are bargaining FOR heads,
Shylock was TO get pound as his part
n he lawfully carried out Portals argu
ment Of his case, the University Of New
York just gets n bit over pound 1--we dol.
lart) for furnishing these modern PortiW
with the inspiration for argumenga name.
~, twelve lectures or one course Of legal
study.
The gray old college which stands IN
University place and receives each year
with renewed vigor ambitious students
was Just the home OF learning 70 take the
lead in this educational departure. When
an old institution which Is invariably In.
hated with long established theories, Gus.
toms and habitsreyorts from ita prescribed
systems, then indeed has worthy recruit
been won over to n new theory.
This Ia the position the University OF
Now York stands In today. II 70 were
human the many earnest women who have
tried TO influence II ia favor OF coeduoation
for years past could cover themselves with
~ told you so" honors, but ns 10 Is a silen;
and unspeaking witness It's gray bearded
walls and wrinsled roofs simply look down
unchanged on the changing interiors For
IN the days Of It's youth and It's primo only
male voices were ever heard within is
gates.
II we believe with the old Roman "that
the very walls have cars,n then perhaps It
IS well that they have not tongues 70 tel
all they know and think. II they could
they might even argue with Professor
Isaac Russell, the now eminent teacher OF
the women law students, as 20 his change
OF mind. lie WAS at FIRST greatly opposed
to the idea Of the addition OF n lecture
chair for women in the law school, but
after much thought and study he has
gradually been convinced OF It's adyisa.
bllity, and at the present time his clio.
quence and energies for It's perpetuation
know no bounds
As the schoolboy said in his lesson upon
physics about the apple, 1.-THE bigger the
apple that falls tho greater the gravita'
ton, T." 80 with the advancement Of women
the greater the man won over TO the cause
the greater the victory. To Chancellor
MacCracken, Professor Russell and IN,
Womanls Legal Educational society
through whose efforts the lecture chain
was endowed, is due the present magm1
cent success which results In the enroll
ment Of nearly 100 ardent students.
The pioneers OF the cause were the mem
bers OF the Woman's Legal Educational
society, which for los size can show NOR,
nctive labor, enterprise and progression
than any organization of It's character 81
America
Mrs. Alexander Forman, the jealous sec
rotary, in her own language best describes
It's birth and advancement
''rhe society originated" she says, III
the interest which was aroused in grouJ
OF ladies by the career Of Mrs Emily KEN
pin, doctor OF laws fror CAe University O
Zurich, who came 20 New York 10 seek op
portonities for practicing law and also fo
teaching, Her energy served 20 bring &,
light latent and hitherto unexpected la
terest IN the study Of law by women
least on It's practical side-and 70 show tlla
this was beginning to be quite diiiuse,
! throughout the community
Several different attempts were mad
10 secure for Mrs. Kempln an opportunit,
10 lecture for women who were DESTROYS Z,
learn. After many schemes had prove,
abortiye the arrangement was finally mad
which - now Ia existence aud has proyei
eminently satisfactory. a society was or
/ gapizod and subsequently incorporate
under the name OF the Woman's Legal Ed
vocational society.
'The object OF this society Is 60 facilitate
all study OF law by women (both as profes
sional students and also as amateurs) ia
terested in law as q subject OF general ~
tellectual culture, and also for the sake q
\ practical guidance Ina personal and busl
ness affairs New York Herald.