The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-31
OFFERED IL. D.
DECREE FOR $40
Honor That Attorney C. S. Kin.
ney Rejected.
FROM NASHVILLE COLLEGE
INSTITUTION IN TENNESSEE
THAT is IN BAD STANDING.

Attorney c. S. Kinney of this city
has been oroffered a most fattering
honor by the Nashville College of
Law of Nashville. Tenn, which wide
~ advertised institution of legal learn
ing also goes by the high sounding title
of the American National College of
Legal Lore The college" offers TO
confer the degree of LII. D. upon him
that is, provided he will remit the
small sum of SO to William Farr Phi.
D., LII D., and dean Of the institution.
This little fee is merely to cover the
expense Of the diploma. according to
the statement of Mr.. FAIR
However. there is another story con-
corning this law college and its dean,
who, according to a Tennessee paper,
in boarding house to any who viii
pay the price" In fact, it is declared
that this college is doing a prosper
Gus business in degrees at SO per.
A few days ago Mr.. Kinney received
a letter from the dean of this institu-
ton. 1t bore the various titles of the
school, and the name of the dean, fol-
lowed by string of degrees long
enough to tangle an expert.
The $40 Was Important.
The document continued by stating
that the name of MF. Kinney had been
suggested to the school as a person Of
ability and station, who would be an
honor to the school, his state and his
country. The dean went on to say that
the school wanted to confer the degree
OF LII. D. on worthy men, and he de-
sired to confer that honor upon him if
he would send SO to defray the ex-
pense of having the diploma mounted
and engrossed.
With the letter was a folder contain
ing list of questions in regard TO
studies in law, how much physical
training the applicant took. what he
thought about co-education of the sexes
in law. and winding UP with a final
suggestion that the ten must not be
overlooked. OF course. the diploma was
free, perfectly 50; but. then, there was
that little expense, that the folder ex-
planned fully
Now, Mr.. Kinney thought some Of the
questions were rather irrelevant in
competent and immateTial, and his sus-
plciOns were aroused. Accordingly he
began to make some Investigations.
He found a New York paper that gave
complete expose of the famous col
lege." This paper contains an account
os an attempt to get SO from a New
York attorney for a degree.
Farr Is a Fraud.
This intended victim began to make
inquiries at Nashville. He learned. &C
COrding to the article that the col
lege' had been Incorporated, but that
II had embraced in its curriculum
many things not permitted by the
charter. Also that the dean became so
free with LII D. degrees that the Bar
association of Tennessee had a bin
passed through the legislature denying
the school the right to confer legal
degrees upon anyone. Since that time
according to the article. Mr.. Farr has
conducted his school in his room. and
has been selling degrees to anybody
and everybody who had the necessary
cash TO pay the expense Of the di-
plOma-
The article winds up by saying: The
William Farr. Phi. D.. LII. D., who as
president of the board of trustees (and
dean of the faculty. signs and trans
mits his diplomas. is the veriest hum
bug, who disgraces the honorable pro-
fessiOn Of the law" Mr.. Kinney de-
cided that he did not care for the de-
gree.