The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-04
TWENTY.SIX GRADUATES
COMMENCEMENT OF THE INDIANAPO-
LIS COLLEGE OF LAW.
An Entertaining Address by Hon.
William l.. Taylor on "The
Lawyers Life"

class of twenty-six young men gradu-
ated last night from the Indianapolis Col
lege of Law. The graduating exercises
were held at the Grand Opera House. which
was crowded with the friends Of the class
and the college. Members Of the local chap
ter of the Sigma M Phi, a national legal
fraternity, occupied the boxes on the right
of the house. They were decorated in the
fraternity colors. old gold and royal purple.
with the Greek letters in colored incan-
descent lights.
The graduates are nearly all Indiana men.
Among them, however, is a young Japa-
nese, Hanshiro Sayeki, who has taken the
full course and is considered one of the
brightest in the class. Those graduated
last night We're: John NJ. Ashby, Indiana;
Bernard 3. Baxter. Missouri; Milo Jesse
Bowman, A. NJ. Indiana; Malcolm Young
Campbell. Indiana; Merton William Chance,
Indiana; Asher L. Cornelius, Indiana; VIII
liam NJ. Crockett, B. S., Indiana; Charles
c. Cushman. Michigan; Joseph H. c. Den
man, b. s., Indiana; John S. Farrell, Indi-
ana; John William Folger. Indiana; George
Riley Foster, Indiana; Hugh Goode CARRIER,
Indiana; Jesse A. Hawkins, Indiana: John
Burton Keener A. B., Pennsylvania; Leora
Edmund Kennedy, Indiana; Charles Ere
mont Kettering. Indiana; Daniel Wilkes
Mcintosh, Indiana; Thomas Hardy Master
son, A. B., Ohio; Albert Reeve Owens, In
diana; James Elmer Recap, Indiana; Han
shire Sayeki, Japan; John Alonzo Treher,
Raymond Lavillon Watkins, Indiana; Ar
thur Herbert Wolven, Indiana.
W. L. TAYLOR'S ADDRESS.
The exercises opened with a selection by
the Indianapolis Military Band, after which
Mrs. Gertrude Fugate sang "Habarno"
from Carmen" John w. Kern, president
of the college, then introduced Hon. Will
liam L. Taylor, former attorney general of
Indiana, who made the commencement ad-
dress, the subject of which was THE Law
yer's Life" Mr.. Taylor spoke of the mass
of books and records which the young law
yer of to-day has to fight Many of them.
he said, are written by men who have be-
come dreamers more or less and their books
are apt TO make dreamers of their readers.
Mr.. Taylor said his one advice on this SUBJ
ject would be never to become religious,
political or a social dreamer.
The law Is a conservative force" said
Mr.. Taylor. 1T does not keep at the head
of the procession Of events nor does II
bring up the rear. 1t expands with ex-
panding conditions. 1t meets each emer-
gency 1t influences the life of the law
student and every successful lawyer is a
student. Naturally he becomes conserva-
tive. He is not at the head Of the column
nor is he a straggler in the rear.
The law is growth, and these young
men must grow with IL. l know how easy
IL is to give advice and how little generally
1T is worth when given; but from an in
tensely practical experience l have these
suggestions to make
Let the first investment you make be
practical, everyday. working library. AS
your business grows and clients increase,
let your library grow The lawyer whose
library has stopped growing has pretty
certainly stopped himself Place this H.
brary in a well-lighted, well-ventilated Of
flee; darkness will start you to dreaming.
and there is little time for dreaming in the
law. | advise that no nearer of mine fill
his office with rocking chairs. The sue
cessful lawyer has no time to rock. In the
swift race for business that all run who
succeed, 1t is necessary that the young law
yer should keep his office and keep it well.
The many failures l have witnessed in the
law have more largely resulted from indo-
lence and careless habits than from any
your office. Law offices in this respect are
like barber shops. Nobody wants to wait;
everybody wants to be next. You must love
the law; love it like the babe loves its
mothers milk. If you do not love. the law
quit it, and quit ii now. If your ruling pas
sion in life is to be rich, go into some other
business and go now.
above all be faithful to the clients you
have. Let their cause be your cause, their
failures be your failures, their success
your success. Whatever of benefit you may
know VIII come 10 them, go and tell them;
The overmastering virtue in a lawyers life
is fidelity. Fidelity to truth and fidelity tC
clients"
DIPLOMAS PRESENTED. :
At the conclusion of the address Hon
Uric z. Wiley presented the diplomas tc
the class. Prof. Earl p. Hopkins announced
the prizes that had been awarded for work
during the year. The senior prize, consist
ing of set of Encyclopedia of Law, Of
fered by the Edward Thompson Company
of North Port, N. Y, for the best genera
scholarship. was awarded to Milo Jess.
Bowman, Of Madison, Ind. Thomas II. Mas
terson, OF Rockport and Albert r. Owens
of Terre Haute, were given honorable men
ton. The first prize of the Junior class wal
won by Dayton Ault, of Elwood, Ind.; sec
ond prize by Joseph l.. Rodges, of Madison
Ind. The deans prize was awarded Jane,
l.. Potter. of indianapolis. Merton w
Chance was valedictorian OF the class, anl
spoke on 1.-The Monroe Doctrine as AFFECT
ing South America" ~ :
The admission to the bar was given b,
Noble G. Butler, Judge, Henry Clay Aller
and Judge Carter. Milo Jesse Bowman
president Of the graduating class. made
All "a IN 1.-The Of