The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-10
THE LAW .TUoENTs DINE.
A Pleasant Occaion at the Preble Last
Night-Complinentary Banquet to the
New Members of the Bar-Interesting
Speeches.

The annual banquet of the Law Students
club at the Preble last evening was a very
successful occasion, and largely att ended,
considering the laeness of the season. 1t
was complimentary banquet to those men,
bers who have ben recently admitted to
the bar, viz: W, g. Eaton, Charles J.
Nichols, Fred j. Moore and Charles H.
Clifford. Others present were Edwin
E. Reckbert, PRESIDENT of the club,
A. Leon Hanscoml, Herbert G. Farr, George
Il. Spear, Ralph NJ Greehlaw, Edward H.
Wilson, Henry j. (onley, f. j. Laughlin,
Clarence W. Peabody and Clarence W Small.
The invited guess WERE Edward G. Rey-
nolds, W. H, Lomey, W. Edwin Ulmer,
Llewllyn Barton. Fred Cobb, Aldermen
Joseph A. MCGOWAN andE. G. S. Kicker.
After the very excellent banquet, Mr..
Edwin E. Heckbert, president of the club,
was introduced as the postmaster of the
evening. He made few appropriate re-
marks and called first upon Mr.. Frank
Moore, who spoke at some length of the
Importance, the scope and the nobility of
| the legal profession. H also reviewed, in
an interesting way the fhanges that have
taken place in the profession, from the
| period of the ascendencsof litigation to the
present supremacy of counsel law business.
He comprehensively declared the present
| necessities of legal success and gave his
hearers much good advie, especially in re-
gard to the element of PERSONAL push that
must be manifested in every mans en-
deavors if they are to b successful.
Edward G. Reynolds, kq., was introduced
as a person of very highauthority lover six
| feet. He said that he puldn't forget that
Cape Elizabeth, his native town, was also
that of the genial president of the club, and
POSTMASTER of the evening. He first doomed
the aforesaid native towa very felicitously,
and then spoke in a runiniscent vein of
previous students banqlets. He declared
himself an enthusiast. believer in this
| students club, because he believed in the
| profession.
But he wished to say that lawyers had
| no right to assume to Themselves a higher
position in the business world because they
belong to the profession. Nevertheless, he
believed that the ayenus of life are wider
| to man who has studid law than to men
in anySother profession ,r vocation b In re-
CARED to the change in he.legal, predecessor.
he said that it is a fact hat now the best
business exists in the Office rather than the
courts.
| William H. Looney was introduced to dis
cuss the question of thelegal profession in
its connection with politics. He said that
he first took the stump n 1880, and spoke in
Pittsfield, N. H., with Hon. W. E. Chandler,
now United States Senator. He gave his
hearers the advice that Mr.. Chandler
gave his hearers on that occasion as to what
the position of young lawyer should be to-
| wards politics.
| Other speakers were w. Edwin Ulner,
| Alderman MCGOWAN, LlyewlIyn Barton,
| Fred Cobb and E. G.. s. Rick r.
The success of the OCCASION was due to
the efforts of A. Leon Hanscome and Presi-
dent E. E. Heckbert, the committee of
! arrangements.