The San Francisco call., 1908-04-26
EAGtR TO
HELP new SCHOOL
Score of Jurists and Attorneys
Pledge Their Aid and
Contributions

With a spirit and enthusiasm rare to
see, 90 prominent jurists and attorneys
met with President Benjamin Ide
Wheeler and members of the faculty of
the University of California at a lunch
con in the St. Francis hotel yesterday
and pledged themselves by individual
contributions and efforts to insure sue
cess to the plan for endowing the great
est law school in the west on the cam
pus of the state university at Berkeley.
The meeting was called specifically
to make known details of the plan and
to raise $4,000 for a lawyers memoir
ial hall in connection with Boalt hall,
which will be the name of the school,
itself to be the point of activity about
which the work of the proposed new
center of legal training would revoIve.
After 1t was announced that Attorney
Charles s. Wheeler had subscribed
$4,000 and Attorney Warren Gregory
had given $500, Chief Justice Beatty
of the supreme court, who presided as
toastmaster, appointed committee to
take up the work and carry it to COM
pletion. Those on the committee were
Chief Justice Beatty, Judges Van
vleet, SIoss and Cooper and Attorneys
Samuel Knight, Sidney Smith and
Frank Short of Fresno.
UNIQUE TRAINING SCHOOL
made possible by donation Of
100000 by Mrs. Boalt two years ago
for the erection of a hall, is planned
to be to the west what Harvard and
Columbia law schools are to law stu
dents the country over today. Event
ually, it was explained by Prof. George
II. Boke of the department of juris-
prudence at Berkeley, it is planned to
secure for it total endowment of
o mr. ~
portant features of the institution will
be its unique position as training
school, not only for those intending
to- follow the legal profession. but as
a place where fitting knowledge of the
essentials and principles of the law
can be taught business and profess
sional men. Boke said also that 5000
volumes had already been collected as
the nucleus of a great law library
OF $4,000 volumes, which it is planned
to install there.
The education of lawyers has dan
gerous possibilities" said Boke in the
course of his remarks. 1T gives a
man a power which can make of him
a dangerous person. You are putting
in his hands law making powers, the
very throttle of future generations, as
it were. which unwisely used can do
immense harm. When it is used for
dangerous power becomes a great force
for righteousness. So a state univer-
sity should not educate men in the
law without great care. They must
be educated with an ideal that they
are practicing not for themselves alone
but for the whole community. Nova
days it is not a question of goodness
or badness, but of awakening to ideals.
The new generation is slipping out of
liefs. A great school of law to shape
the new ideals is necessary on the
Berkeley campus"
BEATTY WILL AID SCHOOL
Chief Justice Beatty declared for
Intelligent criticism" of the bench,
which, he said. could only be brought
about by greater public knowledge of
the law. He said that legislators and
principles of law, and pledged himself
to do his best in promoting the in
terests of the new SCHOOL, Benjamin
Ide Wheeler followed with short ad-
dress on the work the school could ex-
pect to accomplish.
Other speakers were Frank Short of
Fresno, Warren Olney Jr., Prof. Will
liam G. Jones, head OF the law depart
ment at Berkeley, and Attorney Sidney
spect for the courts by members of the
legal profession was necessary. He said
that many of the decisions of the Grim
inal courts that appeared technical to
the businessman would be cleared IL he
had but a slight knowledge of law.
Professor Boke said that 100000 had
been promised by Mrs. Peter Sather and
s125,000 from another source. A plan
was proposed for 100 attorneys to sub
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those present were:
Chief Justice Beatty iProf. William C. Jones
Judge W. W. Morrow Prof. Orrin X. McMur-
Judge G. Van Vleet ray
Judge NJ. c. Sloss Prof. George H. Bode
Judge F. NJ. Angeiotti Judge Lucien Shaw
Judge F. Il. Kerrigan Judge ]. A. Cooper
Frank Sanborn Samuel Knight
Sidney Smith Charles Page
Warren Olney Jr. William Thomas
Frank Short Nathan Frank
Seth Mann c. Irving Wright
BENJAMIN Ide Wheeler