The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
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 10 Give the
Fort,-four Answers
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R, quired.
The agony is over when the list pub
lished this morning is read
1t carries joy to some and sorrow to
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 7OA
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 66 %
per cent on the examination. and TO
seven hours were allowed to answer these
The examination papers were divided up
among the Supreme court judges, and
| where F-the applicant had undoubtedly
passed this was so reported to the court.
If there was doubt, or an applicant was
| considered to have failed the papers
were then considered by the entire court.
The questions used on the examination
was considered by the members of the
class as fair ones.
1t will be remembered that the ques-
| tons prepared for this examination by
|
were two blanks of the February OK
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
| 1,-bn foi loJ
from Howard University. OF the twenty
seven men sent by Wke Forest, twenty
passed. 1t could not be learned last night
how many of the State University class
are embraced in the thirty-seven others
who passed. that institution having had
thirty-six men on examination.
The class of this ugust is the largest in
the history of the court, having been
eighty members. Two years ago the
class numbered sixty-five. while in Feb
ruary of this year it numbered forty-six,
of whom thirty-five passed.
The applicants who passed the examina-
ton last Monday are as follows:
THE NEW LAWYERS.
John A. McRae, Arson county
Jacob E. Long, Guilford county
Joseph B. Ramsey, Nash county.
Michael Schenck, Guilford county.
VIM. A. Lucas, Wilson county.
Thomas S. Fuller, Durham county.
Herschell S. Averitt, Cumberland coun-
ty.
Thomas Allen, Dillon. s. C.
Winfield H. Lyon, Jr.. Wake county.
Charles c. Pierce, Nash county.
! Wade Reavis, Yadkin county
Eburn L. Larkins, Fender county
Leonidas J. Moore, Jr., Craven county.
Spearman A. Newell, Franklin county
| VIM. S. Privott, 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 C. Skies, Jr., Union county
| Robert E. Morris, Rutherford county
James l.. Collier Cumberland county
Thomas E. Brown, New Hanover coun-
ty.
James S. Kuykendall Guilford county
Roy C. Flanagan, Pitt county.
| Hayden Clement Rowan county.
John c. B. Ehringhaus, Pasquotank
county.
Herbert Irving Britton, BERTHE 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.
Stonewal J. Adams, Wake county.
Talbot Murray Allen, Wake county.
Sidney C. Chambers, Durham county.
julius F. Duncan, Carteret county.
Carl II. Herndon, Alamance county.
Robert l.. Ballou, Ashe county.
VIM. c. McRorie, Union county
Farley F. Griffin. Union county.
William w. Boddie, Franklin county.
Moses B. Gillian, BERTHE 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