Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-03
AN AGE OF UNREST
Theme of Address to Univer-
sity Law Graduates.
ADVICE GIVEN TO CLASS
Warning Against Aiding in Evasion
of Law-Winners Of Prizes
and Diplomas.

Few men would assist a criminal in
planning a murder. but 1t is shame to
the profession that so many so-called
lawyers will for large fee assist the
criminal in evading the law and the pen
atty of his guilty act
So declared Representative Arthur W.
kopp of Wisconsin in an address to the
graduating class of the National Univer-
Stty Law School, at the commencement
exercises last evening, in the New Ma
tional Theater
so long as the shrewd practitioners are
willing, for a consideration, to help men
to evade the law or to violate it with i'm
pnnity. so long will justice have miscar-
ried, and to that extent will our govern
ment have been a failure" continued the
speaker.
This is the day of social and economic
unrest. Statutes. federal and state, are
being enacted for the regulation of So
called big business to prevent unlaw
full trusts. monopolies and combinatio
regulating the relationship between en-
ployer and employe; providing compen-
sation acts and acts regulating the en-
Payment of women and children, and, in
fact, on many subjects relating to our
social system. Many of these are in the
so-called police power of the state and
the enactment Of law under this power
will present many new and interesting
problems.
One Reason for Unrest.
You will frequently be called upon to
assist men to do business in spite of law,
or TO evade it. and the fact that members
of our profession have been willing to as
sist men who wish to do business in
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responsible for much of the unrest and
dissatisfaction today. There ought not
to be any doubt about what is lawful and
what is unlawful. The legal profession
can do more to remove this doubt; can do
more to see that the laws are obeyed
and respected than all other classes COM
bined.
The baccalaureate sermon was delivered
by Rev. DR.. Samuel II. WOODROW; pastor
of the First Congregational Church. Rev.
Edward Marshall Mott, pastor of the
Church of the Advent, led the devotional
exercises. Degrees were conferred by
DIR. Eugene Carusi. chancellor of the
school Musical selections were played
by the Marine Band, under the direction
of Lieut. w. ii. Santelmann.
List of Prize Winners.
Names of the winners of prizes follow:
University gold medal for best aver
age in postgraduate class, Roger ODon-
NELL honorable mention, r. B. Lambert,
George r. Shields
Macarthur gold medal for best average
in the senior class, Albert L. Ely: hon
orable mention, Lewis II. Fisher and
Ernest ii. Merchant.
Junior gold medal for best average, T.
A. Underwood; honorable mention. w. +.
Clancy. II. G. Miller.
Prize for best examination on corpora
tons. Roger ODonnell; honorable men,
ton, r. B. Lambert George III. Shields.
Prize for best thesis, Roger O'Donnell:
honorable mention, Benjamin b. Pettus.
Prize for best work in moot court. r.
b. Lambert and Roger O'Donnell. jointly:
honorable mention. Raymond E. Horn.
Prize for best senior examination on
real property, Ernest Howard Merchant;
honorable mention, Glenn Willet.
Prize for best examination on pleading,
Albert l.. Ely; honorable mention, III. b.
Darling and Rufus NJ. Weaver.
Prize for best junior examination on
Blackstone. Lewis Larson: honorable
mention. W. F. Clancy and w. F. Whit
low
Prize for best examination on carriers,
W. F. whitlow: honorable mention F. NJ
Holmes and A. w. Willard.
Degrees Conferred.
The following were awarded the degree
of master of laws: Charles c. Boyer.
Topeka Kan; Eugene C. Burlington,
stephenville. Tex; John Jarvis Butler.
Flandreau, s. d. Reuben Robinson
Burlington, Kan; r. Clyde Cruit, Dis
trict of Columbia; Harry Terrence Darr.
Topeka, Kan: William F. Davidson.
Wilmington, Del; William Lewis Evans.
Indianapolis. Ind. Charles w. Flora,
Kansas City, Kan: Ernest Wilson Gal
braith. Warrensburg, n. Y; Albert Ell
lott Gorham, Jacksonville. Fla: Harry
n ~ nfI Nn1y
Carpenter Cove. Lincoln, Neb: Ambrose
Lewis Grindley. New Orleans. La: Fred
erick Guy. Boston, Mass: NJ. d. Hanley,
Beaver. Pa: holland Rosser Hanes. Ash
burn Va; Harry A. Ravens, Whitehall,
N. Y; George p. Hickman, Smithville.
Tex; Clinton NJ. Hisle, Prince Georges.
Md. Daniel o. n. Hoffman. Milwaukee.
Wis: Raymond f. Horn. District of CO.
of Columbia; Guy f. Hurt, Montgomery.
Md: George Emanuel Jacobs, District
of Columbia: Edwin V. Jones, Whining
| ton. Del; George II. Lalegar, District
of Columbia: r. b. Lambert. Deer
| field. Mo-: John L. Lillard. Hyattsville.
Nd; Ellis Logan. Sterling, Ill; Rafael
Lopez Antongiorgi. Arecibo, Porto Rico
| Irving Leroy McCathran. District of
Columbia; M Allen MeCullough.
District of Columbia: Thomas Colt
wald Mallalieu. Kearney, Neb.; Guy f.
Matheson. Roscommon, Mich: James
May. Ashland. Ky: Clarence Boyer
Mendenhan, Wsstehesser' Pa; Roger
Alexander Ormsby, Detroit. Mich;
Herbert r. Orr. Boonsville. Ind; Robert
Lloyd Wells Owens. District of Column
bia: David Robert Roberts, Logan,
Utah; Clifford A. Rowley. Topeka.
Kan. Roy orville, Samson. waukegan.
ILL.,; William Sidenor Shaull. Martins
burg. w. Va. AGeorge Robert Shields.
Jefferson City. Tex; Ephraim J. Smith,