The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-28
DEPENDS ON LAWYERS.
General WicISersllam Says They Will
Solve Problems of Government.

Cambridge, Mass, June 2S.-The Har-
ward law school set the commencement
pace day today although class cele-
brations, especially that of 1880 in
which former President Roosevelt was
graduated, also held attention.
The law school alumni had as orator
of the. day Attorney General Wicker
sham.
TIL Roosevelt class of 80 journeyed
out to the Hoosick Whisick club in the
We're enjoyed by athletes of 80 year s
ago. AS Colonel Roosevelt had already
notified the secretary he would not be
at these observances, the members
were undiSturbed by a curious thronS-
Seven classes lunched and dined at
the Country club at Brookline. While
later in the day many of the officials
of the university were busy welcoming
candidates for honorary degrees to be
conferred at commencement tomorrow.
Attorney General Wickersham spoke
in part as follows:
.s7The college trained lawyer will solve
the great legal and economic questions
of government in this and the next
generation.
HE will not be the man whose only
acquaintance with the principles OF
law and government has been derived
from text books and lectures, such
man would not be equipped to cope
with them He must be the man VINO
has found the living law as 1t mas
been developed in the real transactloPs
of men. Except with possible rare ex-
ceptions, the day of the ploddlng
student who read his Blackstone IN
desultory. unmethodical, interrupted
fashion from the musty shelves ot
some practicing counsellor, is over.
1.-The college trained lawyer or TINS
and the coming generations VINO VIII
solve the problems of government Is
the man who has mastered the prih-
ciples and doctrines of law as science
through the selection, classlncatIoii
and analysis of adjudged cases lnvolV-
ing their application. .,.,.4
and the criticism of men who nave
found the living law, as II mas peen
actually developed by the real Trans
actions of men-that our government
may be governed and guided on sale
and progressive lines and our Jurls.
prudence developed along paths or
natural sound and wholesome CROWN
declared the attorney general. lne
wise solutions of such questions as
these can only be reached by men VINO
are able to deal with facts ana pI i
ciples as compared WIN lllloi
acquired and memory
Mr. Wickersham made an able ad-
dress. In his opening words ne &c
clared he had been able 10 ootaln
scant leisure from the duties OF oInclai
life and referreu 70
overburdened public official whose
mind was necessarily crowded with the
prosaic and exacting details OF govern
ment.' ,.o-;+,,,, Mr.
Wjckersham continued, rs IN my opin-
~, one of the greatest dangers which
confronts successful democracy every
where The hope of averting 1t rests
largely with men of sound legal educa-
ton. NTH
For. this same contentment VIII VIII
mediocrity breeds an 1mpatlence. W." ~
INV sort of superiority, a desire to pc
iittle ali excellence, readiness to I'm.
n 5utte wrong motives to anything not
as truth, without inquiry, and a grad r. l.
ual lessening for advancement as - ~
pereeived that peace, which is ol' .l
mistaken for happiness. is alone TO ne
found by accepting contentediy a place
in the undistinguished multltuoe'