The sun., 1909-06-18
TIPS FOR YOUNG LAWYERS
JUSTICE CLARKE. ADVISES N. Y.
Law SCHOOL GLASS.
Never borrow From n Client; Get the
Facts Early, Right and Straish"
-I42 Graduates Get LII. n. Degree,
I8 the Masteg,s-Prizes Awarded.

"Neyer Borrow From Client; Get tne
Facts Early, Right and Straight"
-I42 Graduates Get LII. n. Degree,
10 the Master,s-Prizes Awarded.
Carnegie Hall had all it could do last
night TO- hold the crowd of. more or less
interested persons who went there to
see this years class OF the New York
Law School receive the privileges and
immunities Of bachelors Of laws. Fond
mothers. stern fathers, doting sisters and
thoroughly thrilled fianoeee. with here
and there a hopeful wife, leaned over
the box ratings, packed the gallery and
occupied the body Of the house except
that portion which was set aside for the
capped snd gowrncd graduates. Az each
degree candidate paraded across the
platform in front OF Dean George Chase
and reached out his fingers for that bit
Of parchment all these rooters clapped
and hurrahed for all they were worth,
and that was good deal.
They haven't a fitting place to hold
graduating exercises down in the Fulton
street Office building which houses the
New York Law School-down there where
the campus is thirty foot marble floor
Just inside the street door and the col
lege yell is Going up!" or sometimes
aGoing down. So they lessed an audi
torium.
Dean Chase presided and the Rev.
DR.. George Alexander pronounced the
opening prayer and the benediction.
There was the comforting Of degrees
and the awarding Of prizes after the ad-
dress to the graduating class had been
delivered by Justice John Proctor Clarke
Of the Appellate Division OF the New
York Supreme Court. Profs. Reeves,
Petty, washburne, Smith and Carr sat
on the platform with the speakers.
Judge Clarke began by saying that he
hadn't come there TO air grievance. to
urge reform or to sound warning,
but because he remembered the day
when he was sworn as a lawyer himself
and because he remembered how ne
wondered then how to get a client. what
to do with him when he got him and how
to earn living in the meantime.
sPeople say that the profession is
already crowded" said Justice Clarke.
But don't be discouraged. for although
there are 1900 lawyers in New York
there are also four million people here
and every one is possible client
Then he spoke Of the lawyers financial
relations with his clients, advising the
graduates never to borrow from q client,
never to let dollar Of his money get
into their pockets II 1t didn't belong
there and to keep separats accounts OF
trust money.
a lawyer never intends to steal
another's money" said Judge Clarke;
-he just borrows it. Make it impossible
for yourselves to do this. ..,,
them that many q case had been won In
the first week 1t was in lawyers once;
that it was necessary to strike while The
details were fresh. and to learn the facts
so that the lawyer could teach twelve other
men the facts
Get your facts early. right and
straight he said. Another thing to re-
member was the inadvisability OF making
afidavits on a lawyers part. Don't
| let the case come to a question OF your
own veracity,' was Justice Clarke's ad-
vice.
After that he told them not to wrangle
| in court, not to object until the crux OF
| the case was reached and not to try TO
drive a witness too Tar. intellectual
honesty was another thing he urged.
There isn't any profession in the world
| which has a higher standard OF honor
| than the law. just make 1t little higher,
he said. Earnestness. knowledge Of facts,
courtesy, frankness, simplicity and work
| were the things that made up good
lawyer.
Prizes Of slo0 for excellence in the
degree examinations we're awarded to
Jacob Schneider OF the day class, Herbert
NJ. Wallace Of the evening class and
Sidney j. Loeb Of the graduate class
Frank j. Coleman. Jr., and Harry Nj.
Zuckert received SIS prizes. The degree
| Of bachelor OF laws was conferred upon
| I42 men and that Of master OF laws upon
sixteen OF the postgraduate class.
Those who received master degrees
| were Harold q. Aaronson, Roy Clement
Bauer Harold Bernstein. Patrick T.
Bradley. Charles l.. Clune, Victor G.
Cormier. Arthur Wellesley Dalton, Percy
Houghton, James Lindsay Hoyt, Sidney
j. Loeb, John Moncrieff, Irving s. Often
berg. Arthur James Peck, George A.
Rosen, Arthur Judd Ryan and William