The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-24
WOMEN AS LAWYERS.
Miss Maddox Seeks Admission to the
Maryland Bar.

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BALTIMORE, Nd, June A.-Dr- Ber-
nard c. Steiner. dean of the Baltimore
Law School, has signed in due form the
application Of Miss Eta H Maddox. of
this city, for admission to the bar Of Bal
timore and Maryland. Miss Maddox is the
first woman graduate Of the school
Mrs. Edward Addison Greeley. of New
York, who is visiting Mrs. James Hewes,
2l10 North Charles Street, IS one of those
who heartily congratulate Miss Maddox
upon her weli-earned distinction in win
ming a legal diploma Mrs Greeley is a
graduate of the law class for women in
the New York University and for year
was acting president Of the Women's
Legal Educational Society Of New York.
a body Of intelligent women. headed by
DIT. Mary Putnam Jacob, u hich for eight
years sustained in the New York Univer-
sity a law course for women During the
year of her official work Mrs GreeIey's
enthusiastic efforts in the advancement of
law studies among women trebled the
number Of students. The year was also
notable as having among the students
Miss Helen Gould and her sister Anna,
now the Countess de CastelIane
At that time, in addition to the univer-
sity scholarship open to the women's law
course. Mrs Greeley personally offered
the first prize ever given for law thesis
by one Of the students The successful
candidate was Miss Helen BIondeI- OF
Brooklyn, n. Y, who has since been ad-
mitted To the bar of New York and has
TeHuneTatiVe practice
In reply to the question whether women
possess the qualifications to practice at
the bar Mrs. Greeley sad:
THAT women are individually capable of
by the fact that they are successfully
praticing- Among my personal friends are
more than a dozen who have graduated
from a law school, who have creditabIy
passed the examination for admission TO
the bar either in New York in Washing
ton, d c. in Milwaukee, or in San Fran
cisco, and today each one IS pursuing her
professional work with satisfactory profit
in the form of an income.
Mrs Fannie Hallock Carpenter, one Of
the first women admitted to the bar Of
New York, has just won case before the
Court Of Appeals. gaining for her client
the large sum of $1,000, after the cause
had been considered hopeless by the at
torneys previously engaged upon it
Whatever was unusual IN the theoretf-
cal position Of women as practicing law
yers has crysta IIized into a definite real
Ky tS Liz SlLLtftt PROCESS OF EINiLZ Ulil-
gent attention to the required study, gain
ing a cIientage and earning fees.
In regard to Miss NIaddox's present pO-
sition, both as a graduate from the Bal
timOre Law School and as entitled pro
forma by signed certificate to make her
application for admission TO the bar. the
most interesting feature Is the fact that
( the laws Of the State which have hereto
fore taken her under their aegis, stfmu-
! lated and fostered her IaudabIe demand
for q liberal education. are now lament
ably pOWCTIeSS- to sustain her Just claim
I Tor recognition and TO accord to her work
/ the justice IL has been encouraged to de
serve.
The State act of incorporation for the
institution which Miss Maddox has at
tended for three years by the reciprocal
acceptance of fees and attendance upon
the specified lectures made it possible
: Tor ner to attain the degree OF bachelor
OF laws on The. same status of eNamIna-
ton as the men who We're members of
I the class The question of the justice of
! Miss Maddox position does not in any
| way involve a reference TO her Satisfac-
/ tory work as a student or any other test
/ OF her bIiltE TO sustain an exdmiua tiOn
I for admission to the bar. nor does il re-
! late to what subsequent use she may
1 make OF the privilege TO practice before
! the courts Of the State BY the success
siye wisdom of State legislative enact
mentS the former requirement for ad-
mission to the bar Of Maryland. that the
! candidate shall Ice d free white male
/ citizen has by the act Of ISSS opened the
! list Of eligible candidates to those who
| are designated as male citizens In view
! Of the radical change from previous re
! quirement that the applicant be a free
/ white male citizen TO the present lam
! guage OF the code u male citizen II is
| not too much t. hope that both the law
| examiners and the subsequent Tatfica ton
! Of the Court of Appeals VIII so cOnStrue
| the act of lSSS. as amended, that it falls
! into harmony with the logical PROPOSE
! ton that the whole includes every part
| ''Onc Of the most eStimabIe Of law max
/ inns. which inspires every student with a
/ sense of the beniguity as well as the
| majesty of law. is that equity considers
| that done which ought TO be done. Re
| Numbering the former mUtability of the
| code relating 10 TIE terms for men of ad-
| mission To the bar il would seem that
| the very spirit of conservatism which dis
! tinEuishes the State Of Maryland would
| shield Miss Maddox'S claims from any
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