The colored American., 1901-03-02

attract an IncTessIr e number Of whit
students. The co ore d students GOU Ell
t at an eari1-r age than fOrmeTIv. ant
| ~Ith better pre- paTa,tOp; H. re IF tnen
devO.e themselves exclusively to law
-tudIe-, though niue-ts lbs of them ar
entirely self suppOr ing, and twice ~
many as at any peIiOd IN the past be
gin he practice Of their profession i'm
medIately, af er graduation except i,
Delaware where they have not yet been
permitted to take the bar examinatiO
| though they would have no trouble In
passing as our cOuue is so exit nsive
that it taxes mode rate capacity to &C M
plete it in three years Our method,
en- plOying a. it does the recitation,
tt e quiz, the lecture and the best fea
lUres OF the case sys EN-, together with
the club, the moot clUrt and the prac
tice cDurt-all three presided over by q
Profess or to insure dignity and deco
rum-Is so thorough that in cultural
value it is almost equsl to three years
in college. But how could TT ese young
men help acquiring q knowledge of the
law and of American institutions or Of
imbibinR their spirit? For they have ac
cess 10 vast Libraries; TO the Supre M,
Court II the District OF ColumDia and
lis various branches with probate, quI
ty, admiralty, stat utUry and common
law jurisdiction; the Court Of Appeal
and Court of Claims ard TO the Su
preme Court Of the United States Wner,
lesdlng American lawyers discuss CUES
tiOns of II atiODal or world wide import
ance | psss over the lyCenms and 9th
er forums where cur students have is,
the past been aole so hear famous me-
of o. her racs and to initiate the bes
modeia OF their 0wn-CrummelI and
Payne, Price and B yden and the great
DOugass whose WOrus never failed {,
k1Ddle the imagination or stir the hear
when he burst forth, as he often did, l.,
a veritable star shower of beauty and Of
graz deur
Aud now what of the result? You
a K for the truth and the proof W.
saw the light only a generation sgO, but
We are not ashamed OF our RECORD
Here it is: Fourteen hundred aud Ihir
ty'tbree students have attended toe
Law deI artment, of whom three hun
dred aud nIDe g. graduats d, ninety
one Of THESE completing the post grad.
uate course. Among the graduste,
were nine women, SIX of them whi g,
but Ihe pioneer wSs q cOlOred lady,
who In 1872, became the first woman
in he country, if net in the world, to
graduate from a regular school of law
In thirty years about fifty Of our alum
nj have dCd. Of those now living
twenty five are teach1r g and nearly a.
many more pursue varied callings; sew
euty five are CLERKS and display NOR.
or less activity in politics or in the
newspaper world, and one hundred and
fifty are in the active practice of tn.
la -, steadily winning the COD Dfidenct
Of cOuIts and in their respective com
munitits s, rising to position of inf1u
ence and u5efu ness in proportion a.
their race grows in numbers, intelli
gence and prosperity, in self'respect
an d in faith itself.
Many of these lawyers are well
knUwn-Settle and Napier of Tebnes
st e; Lee OF Florida an0 StTaktr Of Mich
igsn, and even younger pracIici01ers
like Fislds, Melvin aud GOIdsbeTry of
Virgins; Carter OF Pennsylvania and
Brown OF New YORK; Harper Of West
Virginia snd CUsey Of New jersey;
WCOdsOn OF Iowa and Wilson OF Hi
n0iF; White and WukeTsOn Of Ken
lucky; KinkIe OF Georgia and Martin
of Kansas City; Mason OF Texas and
Vic kIIft9 Of California, ar d Emma NJ
GliletT, Reuben g. Smith and Hart and
Bundy of the " ashingtOn Bar, TO say
nothing IF business men like Baker
aud Notary and workers who have
II ndered service that money cannon
procure Cromwell, Hilyer, Hershaw,
and Ruth g D Havens, whOee wit auO
wisdom make her a conspicuous figure