The law barn
Subtitle: a brief history of the School of Law, University of Missouri-Columbia
By: by William F. Fratcher.
Publisher: The School
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: University of Missouri-Columbia. School of Law -- History.
Notes: Chapter III, Fifty Years of Wasps, details the lack of air conditioning in the law building and the danger of open windows.  
Fratcher noted that in 1960 the legislature appropriated $70,000 to air condition the building, but Governor Blair (a graduate of the Cumberland School of Law, in Tennessee) "...vetoed this extravagant and wasteful bill. The Board of Curators, mindful of the injunctions of the Sermon on the Mount, rewarded Governor Blair with an Honorary LL.D. degree.  The Goddess Nemesis was less forgiving.  The central air conditioning system in Governor Blair's home pumped carbon monoxide gas into the room was he was sitting with his wife and dog.  There was no survivor."   I can easily imagine the look on Fratcher's face as he wrote that.    
In the footnote to the sentence about Governor Blair, Fratcher noted  "It used to be rumored that there was a time when students who flunked out at Missouri went to Cumberland and graduated there with honors..."  Page 37 FN#13.  Yes, that's the Professor Fratcher we knew and loved.
Table of contents: label: I
title: Two Former Ohio Lawyers Produce a Baby
pagenum: 1; label: APPENDICES
title: V.  Licenses to Practice Law
pagenum: 140