The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-30
LAW COLLEGE SOLD FOR$19,5oo
INCLUDING 1924 STUDENTS AND
A FUTURE OF SAVBUCkS

and Farr, Pm. D., LII. D., Dean, Held HE
Peace Therefore-Heard From Now.
President Professor William Farr, Phi D.,
LII. D.. Dean has sold out bodily for a
valuable consideration the Nashville COL
lege OF Law" delivering over, among
divers and sundry other assets, an item
OF 1924 students appointed" to enter the
Resident Department OF Law" during
the coming fall term; also another item
OF 1000 Correspondence students. studying
law by the correspondence method"
THE Sun is able to make this announce
ment on the highest authority-that OF the
President Dean. Phi. D.. LII. D.. himself.
In the cloisters OF the Nashville boarding
house in which this institution Of learning
until lately Ia understood to have had it's seat.
Farr, Phi. D., LII. D., Dean, has taken pains
to thresh out on his typewriter a letter
to this paper many hundred words in length.
adorned with garlands Of poesy and con-
tanning valuable data Of an photographed
character, in which he makes the an
nouncement. Of such moment to the legal
profession, that he has severed his con-
nection" with the institution.
A few weeks ago THE SUN printed some
interesting facts concerning Farr, Phi. D.,
LII. D., and his college of law. Among
other things it related the experiences Of
one or two gentlemen in this city who had
received communications from the learned
Dean. Phi. D., LII. d.. Offering them the
degree Of doctor of laws for a considera-
ton temptingly below the market quo
tations for this honor namely, to wit,
viz, one sawbuck, or $40. The SUN also
printed at the same time questions selected
from the severe examination which all
applicants must meet successfully in order
to become the happy possessors OF one Of
those diplomas, which, the Farrian cir
culars assure all aspirants, are suitable
to frame and place in the home or Office
testimonial Of honor, prestige,
efficiency and worthN-such questions.
for instance, as the following:
sexes In college OF law?
Name the church Of your choice.
What is your political belief In national
affairs?
AZ. you member OF any secret society
Do you take daily exercise?
This paper even went further, and pre-
sented a testimonial from the editor Of the
Charlottesville, Va, Progress concerning
the learned Farr as follows:
The william FaIr. Phi. D.. IL. D.. who as
faculty, signs and transmits this diploma
!, the veriest humbuS and charlatan, who
tse 7s, ba e eossHn OF s
the country will expose this vile charlatanism
and imposture
And yet the learned Farr-it seems there
are several Of him-in his letter to this
paper announcing his bill of sale Of the 1924
students, together with the goodwill Of
the institution OF legal lore, says:
We have been reading the articles which
Sasbye 81
and some of It's ocers. We have r,ade a NO
answer direct to you in regard to these state
M n. n;otwithstandins the fast they have
true and malicious. manufactured lies OF
our jealous enemies, but, as we were at the
time contemplating Z, deal. and in fact had a
TO take the matter up with you then, and
since the deal has been consummated your
publications are OF little concern to us. how
that the purchasers OF The Nashville College
Of Law. request that ! write you before re-
the within copy of the bill OF sale and articles
Of agreement. asking that you give The
Nashville College. of Law. as corporation,
OF management and administration that
you have given 1t in endeavoring, as it seems.
to injure it,
He is little breathless as to punctuation,
but the learned Deans meaning, appar-
emily. is that he was as offended as a man
with deal on his hands could be. Yet his
CHEEKY disposition dominates.
and few lines below in his letter he drops
into poetry on the law colleges call for
men:
Men with destiny.
Men with win like Blackstone,
Men with new eras In their brain,
Men who will stand for her.
For God and our native land
TIL the last armed foe expires.
L.
% the plain, prosaic autobiogra ply
We graduated from one OF the best law
colleges in the North in 1898 and came South
and commenced our work in this State In
he fall Of the same year with our future
% make
1t was some months before the Tennessee
lie gislature, through the influence OF the
Bar Association of that State. took cogniz-
,nce Of Farr, Phi. D., LII. d.. and his law COL
ege by deprivng the institution OF the
light TO grant law licenses. From that
lime on the Dean confined himself accord
ng to report made to &c ntleman in this
,ity, as published in THE Sun of Nav "a |
asst, to Selling honorary degrees from his
-oom in a boarding house"
According to the bill Of sale supplied by
,an Institute of Legal Lore. as the sub
title of his plant reads This included the
1924 students of assorted varieties, an
average of something over IS so per head.
In addition to that there 60 with the assets |
10 900 names and addresses of prospective
aw students throughout the United States
Ind some stationery and college papers.
There is also a college yell thro wn in for
and college song. The college
ong, although only modestly -dedicated'
O the learned dean, bears internal evidence
hat Farr, Phi. D., LII. D., is himself the j
lifted bard who penned il. The song is as
ollows'
NASHVILLE COLLEGE soNo
dedicated to Whtam Far. Ill. ny
(Soprano and AnoJ
Down In the beautiful Southland
In the spot so dear 10 one and all,
Stands our noble Alma Mater.
The Nashville College of Law.
Chorus. |
Sound its praises sing them ever
Helpit onward, loud the stop tell
welcome all wecome-farewel
Down In sunny Tennessee,
Midst hills. music. echo and sound,
Where all In nature smiling seems,
Stands the pride OF en- Athens town.
(Copvriohted. 1903. by Hfnds 4 Nobie)
The Weather.
The low pressure which causing I'M.
cttled conditions In the Southern and south At
nntc States on Sunday has moved northeastward
nd was central over New Jersey yesterday morn
ne, causing heavy rains In New York. New Jersey
nd eastern Pennsylvania. Rain also fell in the