The farmer and mechanic., 1903-09-08
THE F|FTY-E|GHT
WHO GET LICENSE
Over Seventy Per Cent of
This Law Class Win.
AND TWENTY-FIVE FAILED
There Were Five Colored Applicants and Of
These Four Failed TO Give the
Foriy-four Answers
REQUIRED.

Required.
The agony is over when the list pub
lished this morning Is read
1t carries joy TO some and sorrow 70
Others for out Of eighty applicants for
license to practice law IN North Carolina
ffty-eight passed and twenty-five failed.
The percentage of these passing Is 1Ol3,
and this is the largest in a number OF
years Sixty-six questions were asked,
and of these 1t was necessary to answer
forty-four correctly or to obtain 90 2-5
per cent on the examination and seven
hours were allowed to answer these.
The examination papers were divided Up
among the Supreme court judges, and
where the applicant had undoubtedly
passed this was so reported to the court.
If there was a doubt, or an applicant was
| considered to have failed the papers
were then considered by the entire court
The questions used the examination
! was considered by the members of the
| class as far ones.
| 1t will be remembered that the queS-
tions prepared for this examination by
Judge Walker gave out and that there
| were two blanks of the February ex-
animation used 1t IS said that one man
| who had these questions passed, and the
/ others failed There were five negroes
/ who stood the examination, four of these
failed and one passed, this one being
William E. Griffin of Baltimore, Md,
who was prepared at Shaw University, IN
Raleigh Three of the colored applicants
who failed were from Shaw, and one was
from Howard University. OF the twenty
seven men sent by Wake Forest. twenty
Of q
/ University thirtyt1ve were successful.
The class of this August is the largest IN
the history of the court, having had
eighty members. Two years ago the
class numbered sixty-five, while IN Feb
ruary OF this year it numbered forty-slx,
of whom thrty-fve passed
The applicants who passed the eXamlna-
ton last Monday are as follows:
THE NEW LAWYERS.
John A McRae, Anson county.
Jacob z. Long, Guilford county.
| Joseph B. Ramsey Nash county.
Michael Schenck, Guilford county.
VIM. A. Lucas, Wilson county.
Thomas S. Fuller, Durham county.
Herschell S. Ayeritt, Cumberland coun-
| ty.
Thomas Allen, Dillon, S. C.
| Charles c. Pierce, Nash county.
Wade Reavis Yadkin county.
Eburn L. Larkins, Pender county.
Leonidas J. Moore, Jr, Craven county.
Spearman A. Newell Franklin county.
VIM. S. Prlvott, Chowan county.
Chas. G. Gilreath, Wilkes county.
; Samuel A. Dunn, Halifax county.
Raymond C. Dunn, Halifax county.
Walter n Keener, Lincoln county.
Leon T. Vaughan, Halifax county
Fletcher H. Lyon, Wilkes county.
Odes NJ. Null, Cleveland county.
Andrew F. Sans, Wake county.
John G. Skies, Jr., Union county.
Robert E. Morris, Rutherford county.
James L. Collier, Cumberland county
Thomas E. Brown, New Hanover coun
ty.
James S. Kuykendall, Gulford county
Roy c.. Flanagan, Pitt county.
Hayden Clement, Rowan county.
John C. B. Ehringhaus, Pasquotank
county.
+, Herbert Irving Britton, Bertie county
Thomas F. Hudson, Rowan county.
Theodore G.. Britton, Pitt county.
Albert L. Starr, Catawba county.
Archibald D. Monteath. Buncombe
| county.
Louis Goodman, New Hanover county.
Ernest NJ Green, Craven county.
Kenneth B. Thgpen Edgacombe county,
Hamilton V. Stewart, Guilford county
Edward H. Gibson, Scotland county.
Jack r. Rountree Orange county.
StoneWall j. Adams, Wake county.
; Talbot Murray Allen, Wake county.
| Sidney c. Chambers, Durham county.
julius F. Duncan, Carteret county.
: Carl H. Herndon, Alamance county.
Il Robert l.. BallOu AShe county.
Vim. C. McRoric, Union county.
Farley F. Griffin. Union county.
! William w. Boddie, Franklin county.
| Moses B. Gillian, Bertic county.
VIM. E. Griffin, Wake county.
Josiah F. Sellars, New Hanover county.
| Henry p. Short, Columbus county.
!, Robert p. Reade, Person county.
Decatur f. Morrow, Rutherford county.
| Thaddeus A. Adams, Nash county.