Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-01


band of people Is unique in many ways
not only because they are all that are
left OF the 500 or 900 who entered the
study of these professions three or four
wears ago bur also because or the
difficulties they have overcome and the
labors they have undergone TO attain the
coveted goal.
Only small proportion of these sradu-
ates have been assisted along the pains
OF a professional course by the endoW-
ment OF a family fortune \ total OF
more than 30 per cent of them nave
literally forced their own way through
the courses. earned their own expenses
while doing so and utilized every spare
moment of a busy day in study or
recitation. Moreover, MANY Of them have
had the extra burden Of caring for
family. so that instead OF receiving as
s,stance they have been kept busy III
assisting others.
In addition. they have participated in
the various college institutions. such as
debating societies. fraternltles, various
forms of student activities and. In some
Instances. college athletics. How they
found time to do all of IT no one else
knows. Looking back upon the pain
they have Travelled. some or them say
that they do not themselves KNOW now
they managed II.
In the group of graduates of the four
Law schools and the two medlcal Schoois
this year there may be found competeht
representatives of practically every hon
orable calling in life; for, when SO many
are striving for the same goal. it follows
from necessity that they must De versa
tile In their endeavors. However, it IS
a fact so noticeable that even visitors
have remarked it. that practically WIFI
out exception the students of the pro-
fessions in Washington who are self-sup-
porting pay their expenses by WORKING
al what is regarded as the higher grade
OF callings. Thus it Is discovered that
while in many schools in the country the
self supporting student must work as a
ianitor or waiter or chore about at odd
Jobs the average self-supporting student
IN Washington is an honored and efnclent
worker in field of endeavor that re-
auires an unusual amount of skill and
fitness.
This fact has had the effect of giving
the student body an unusually cosmopoli-
tan personnel. A canvass of the law and
medical schools shows the very wide di-
vergence in the walks of life followed by
the various members of the student bod
les Among them are representatives
from every branch of the government
service. secretaries to congressman. Off
of the army and navy, bank cash
iers, letter carriers. policemen. depart
ment store clerks. bookkeepers, street car
operatives. school tachers. reporters, ma
chiniSts. chauffeurs, electricians and shop
keepers.
The work now carried on by Chief JUS
tice White of the United States Supreme
Court. Representative Irwin S. Pepper of
Iowa. former Postmaster General Hitch
cock and Capt DAILY of the ninth precinct
OF the metropolitan police shows that
the graduates of the law schools of
Washington later follow as divergent
walks of life as they did during their un-
dergraduate careers.
The labors of the various members of
the graduating classes to attain the prop
or scholastic standing in Law or medicine
are inspirational In the extreme. They
which they have not attended single
social gathering and of day after day
that they followed the long grind of their
caily work and the extra tasks imposed
upon themselves when they undertook
the study of law medicine. and how
even the smallest pleasures had to be fore
gone, If they We're 10 be successful
Ii sometimes is hard to understand that
such labor will be undertaken even for
the sake of fitting ones self for an hon
ored profession and to fully prepare for
life work But the real marvel comes
when II is understood that a goodly pro-
portion of these graduates-and increas-
fngly more every year-enter the study
OF law not because they want aptness in
II as end. but because they think il
worth while to master law as a cultural
study and to better fit themselves for