The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-25
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cial. 1.-The commemorate exercises OPEN
ed tonight with an address to the law
school, Of which Mr.. n. Y. Gulley
is professor, by Justice Walter Clark, of
the Supreme Court.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) night the alumni
address will be delivered by Rev. DIR.
Len. G. Broughton, of Roanoke, Va.
Senator Ransom will deliver the liter
ary address at II o'clock "Wednesday
morning. and at night Rev. f. Nj. Nc
Council. D. D., will preach the baccalau-
reate sermon.
On Thursday the graduates will speak.
There are 4S this year-the largest class
in the history of the college, and on
Thursday night the young people will
have Il concert and social gathering.
The law class. the students, the vii
layers. the professors and the distinguish
ed visitors who have already arrived,
gave Judge Clark Il splendid audience.
He was introduced by President Taylor
in his usual felicitous style, and said:
JUDGE CLARK'S SPEECH.
Young Gentlemen of the Law Depart
ment. Mr.. President. Ladies and Gen
tlemen:
The rapid progress and development
Of Wake Forest College in recent years
is a subject of congratulation. not only
to the great denomination to whose eBer-
gy. wisdm and liberality it owes its eX-
istence, but to the whole State. 1t Is
doing a grand and beneficent work and
is sowing seed which will bear abundant
harvests. DIR. Hufham. i'll his late adj
mirable paper on The Baptists in North
Carolina" in speaking of the early perse-
cutions they underwent in this colony and
the cotemporaneous contests between the
people and arbitrary rulers, says with
truth and force: In all this hong struggle
the Baptists were of the people and with
the people They believed in civil and
political, as well as religious, liberty, and
held themselves in readiness to contend
earnestly not only for the faith once
delivered 10 the saints, but also for the
chartered rights of freemen. To under
stand their rapid growth in numbers and
influence, it is necessary to bear these
facts in mind
There has ever been this compensa-
ton for religious persecution-that it
burns into the inmost souls of the victims
the necessity Of civil liberty and creates
sturdy determination to maintain it al
ways and under all circumstances-and
to-day the unbending spirit of freemen
and devotion to the right of the people
to self government have no firmer anchor
age than in the hearts of the Baptist peO-
pie Of North Carolina. \ truly great
man who has now gone out from among
us and who knew this people of North
Carolina as it has been given to few men
to know them, and who was loved and
trusted by them as they loved and trusted
no one else, remarked in my presence that
the Baptists in North Carolina were the
most Independence people on the face of
the earth"
Successful as this college has been the
success of its law department has been
phenomenal. 1t began with two students
in the summer of 1894. not quite three
years ago. | learn from Prof Gulley that
in the session Of 1S94'95 it had n stu
dents: the catalogue of 1S93-'96 shows
81 law students. and that of 1S36-'91
has S6a number which is not only great
or than that of all the other law schools
in the State, but which | am told is
greater than that of all the other law
schools put together. Twenty-eight of
its students have already received license
to practice and are scattered over this
State. Georgia, South Carolina and Vir
ginia, and % more will apply for license
at the September term of the Supreme
Court. | learn too that your law course
requires two years. This is eminently
right. Young men lose nothing by tax
ing time to lay broad and deep the foun-
dations Of their legal knowledge. There
is nowadays too great a disposition TO
rush out into all the professions with too
little preparatin.
In nothing is the old maxim, festina
lente-"make haste slowly" wiser than
in this matter of procuring a thorough
training for the arena on which one is to
fight the battle Of life. In many of the
States three years legal study is required
before admittance to the bar, and in 9th |
ers four years. There are several which |
require only two years study. North
Carolina is one of the very few States
in which only oneiyears study is required
before the law student is permitted to |
stand his examination for license to prac- |
tice. This is entirely too little. 1t is
unjust TO the bar, and more than all |
unjust to the young student who should |
begin his career well grounded in the |!
principles of law. Your college officials |
HdNt NbHt Wei ~ you, tllI dclcu WISELY
for the reputation Of the college in eX-
acting Il two years course Of study
for your success or failure in after life |
will reflect upon the college which sends |
you forth.
SO large and prosperous a law school |
and college must from time to time turn
out many men who will be influential for
veal or woe, lin guiding the destinies Of
the State. In the beginning of the great |
French Revolutidn when the young
soldiers flocked from all parts of France
to the standards of the Republic, the
generals would say: "There are some cap
tains among you-a little time will show
who they are and they shall have their
places" i know not to how many Gov
errors and Generals and Senators and
judges | am talking to to-night-and pos
sibly there may be bishop or two among
You, for / see some good Methodist TIM
Der here, and / feel the responsibility of
selecting subject upon which to address
you.