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What must be regarded as the first important step toward placing the different departments on the plane of equality which in theory they occupy, and which they really do occupy in the Ger- man universities, and in the University of Virginia, was the length- ening of the terms in the professional schools from six to nine months. Thus the Commencements of all the schools were in 1885 for the first time held on the same day. In 1880 the course in medicine was increased from three to four years, and since 1894 three years instead of two have been required for admission to the law school. These changes, together with advances in the require- ments for admission, and with such rigid enforcement of work during term time that neither law nor medicine is alluring to the
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lazy student, have done much to rehabilitate the professional schools in collegiate opinion. Should it be found practicable to require a college diploma before matriculation in any school save the academic, the lines between the different departments may in time be obliterated as far as student feeling goes. At present the relations, though not intimate, are friendly. It should be added here that the Engineering Department, which in 1895 was carved out of the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts, is still reckoned as part of the latter in social and class matters; and as the requirements for admission to it are sufficiently rigorous aca- demic students are not likely to ostracise their former associates because of the arbitrary division made by the authorities.
Until 1876 the School of Pharmacy, the first class of which was graduated in 1869, was catalogued as a subdivision of the literary department. For a time the students of the school insisted that they were "lits" and they claimed-but were denied-the right as such to vote in the elections for editors of The Chronicle and for officers of the Stu- dents' Lecture Association. Indeed the feel- W. E. QUINBY, '58. ing of the real "lits " against them never was so acrimonious as it was against the "medics " and the "laws ". As for the College of Homœopathy and the Dental School, the relations of their students with the academic undergraduates have been slight. The advocates of homœopathy used to complain of unfair discrimination against them on the part of the professors and students of the " regular " school; but such complaints are rare.
Years ago departmental spirit was fostered by circumstances. The entire medical school was called together very often, the law school daily, to hear lectures; and compulsory chapel exercises assembled every morning all the academic undergraduates. Meet- ings of the literary department used to be held on Saturday after chapel, and on occasion, as in choosing colors and when adopting a University cap, those meetings legislated for the whole body of students. At a department meeting some one of the seniors was called to preside. In October, 1870, a full complement of offi- cers, with Charles E. Gorton, '71, as President, was elected, and it was determined that a new choice should be made at the end of every college year. But a second election did not take place.
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With the abolition of Saturday morning chapel department meet- ings ceased, or were held on extraordinary occasions only. In fact when attendance at chapel became voluntary the academic students, no longer brought together by any official exercise, lost much of their partisan feeling. That feeling, however, has been preserved in each of the other schools by the solidifying influence of a common profession. The law students in particular have always manifested a genuine regard for their school. When the old University custom of celebrating the birthday of Washington was discontinued, the undergraduates of the law department took it up; and they have made so much of it that the list of those who have delivered the twenty-second of February addresses includes the most eminent men in the country. Of late the law students have been very active-and correspondingly successful -- in the elections wherein members of different departments participate.
THE MUSEUM BUILDING.
CHAPTER IV THE CLASSES
Of all the institutions with which the Michigan student comes in contact the most important is the class. This the young matriculate helps to organize, through it he becomes a factor in college life, and in memory of it he returns to Ann Arbor long after student days have passed. If anybody cares, fifty-eight academic classes have been matriculated. William B. Wesson of Detroit, who entered as a sophomore in 1841, but who left college in 1842 on account of poor health, con- stituted the class of '44; and Judson D. OF M 62 Collins, Merchant H. Goodrich, Lyman D. Norris, George E. Parmelee, and 8 3 A TI George W. Pray, formed at the outset the class of '45, which, after receiving eight accessions during the four years of its course, and after losing three of its SEM number, came up to Commencement with · eleven men. These eleven included all of the original six except Norris, who took his degree in 1845 at Yale where he had spent the last two years of his course. One of the two non-graduates was Alexander M. Campau of Detroit, whose place in the University has been taken by his sons and grandsons. With the class of '46 twenty-two men were associated, and the class of '47 had twenty-five, the number of graduates in each being seventeen and twelve respectively. Twenty-three alumni and twelve non-graduates made up the class of '49, which kept the. lead in numbers until surpassed by '57. The attempt of the Faculty to suppress the secret societies drove to other colleges eight members of the class of '50 alone, and the evil effects of it were not effaced until the entrance of the large class of '58, the strongest ante-bellum delegation. With that class eighty-nine men, of whom forty-nine received diplomas, were connected. The academic class of '61 graduated fifty-three men, but the Civil War caused the attendance to diminish, and not until the class of '68 with its fifty-four alumni was the record of '61
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equalled or surpassed. In 1866 was matriculated the largest delegation known up to that time; one hundred and four men entered with the class of '70, which also-despite a serious conflict with the Faculty-graduated a number before then unprecedented, viz., seventy-six. Now came many large classes, foremost among them being '75, with which ninety-two men took degrees. For a long time '75 remained the largest of the classes if the number of graduates is regarded as the test; but '88 carried 109 men through the ordeal of Commencement. At present '96 with its record of 170 male graduates is the banner class. The number of women graduated with each academic class has varied from one in '73 to eighty-two in '96.
Coming to the professional schools one learns that '51, the earliest class in medicine, was also the smallest, for it graduated only six men. This number grew to forty-one in 1854, but the hard times of 1857 caused a relapse. Toward the close of the Civil War and thereafter the delegations increased, ninety-seven men being graduated in 1869. Notwithstanding the lengthening of the terms from six to nine months, the popularity of the school continued to grow, so that as many as 117 students received diplo- mas with '83. Probably that class will long hold the record, for the addition of a third year to the course so diminished class rolls that nine years passed before the old figures were approached; and since '92 the requirement of a fourth year has lowered the average annual graduation to sixty.
As for the law school, its classes increased every year from 1860, when twenty-four men were graduated, to 1868, when 150 took degrees. This record remained until 1876, in which year the graduates numbered 159. In 1879 diplomas were conferred upon 193 students, a number which was not equalled until the gradu- ation of '90 with 212 members. The classes now grew so large as to be almost unmanageable-'93 finishing with 327, '95 with 301, and '96 with 324-and the extension of the course to three years became necessary. This had the effect of reducing the class for 1897 to fifty-one members, but it is believed '98 will graduate nearly 200.
Classes in the school of pharmacy have varied in size at the time of graduation from five in 1872 to forty-one in 1889. The first class ('69 ) had twenty-three members, the latest ('97) twenty-one. In the dental school the earliest class '(76) graduated nine stu- dents, and the largest class ('94) includes sixty-five alumni. As
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for the homœopathic medical school, its classes, beginning with '77, have ranged from twenty-five men in 1879 to one man in 1895; and the class of 'or is the largest, with one exception, ever matri- culated. The engineering department began in 1895-96 to have classes of its own, but its students are regarded as classmates by their comrades in the college proper, and its classes are included in the figures given for those of the literary department.
In the early days when the students roomed in the college dormitory, and when all the members of a particular class met in the same recitation rooms day after day, class spirit was necessar- ily strong. This spirit, of which class badges, canes, caps, colors, publications, reunions, seals, and songs are the legitimate expon- ents, while " bolts ", "hazing ", and "rushing " are its abnormal outgrowths, has varied greatly in different classes. Of it '68, '70, and '73 had perhaps a superabundance, while '69 was thought to have but little. Gradually changes have been introduced which have done away with much that nourished special pride in and af- fection for one's class. The dormitory is no more; compulsory at- tendance at chapel, where all academic students used to meet daily, each class sitting by itself, has been abolished; the privilege of holding class meetings immediately after chapel has been with- drawn; oratorical exhibitions in which UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN the class as such was interested, have been abandoned; the system of elective studies has destroyed the integrity of SAPIENTIA 63 the class by throwing together men of all classes; and finally, the Faculty has, since 1880, ignored class distinctions LAETITIA . FACETIAE altogether, the names of all academic students being printed in one alphabetical arrangement in the catalogue. Some of these changes were made with the intention of minimizing what was regarded as a dangerous force; and already many zealous friends of the University are questioning whether the force has not been lessened too much, and whether anything else is a substitute for it in producing that collegiate loyalty without which Alma Mater can profit little by her sons.
It is to be regretted that the official catalogue has given up the arrangement by classes. That arrangement could easily be made in accordance with the proportionate amount of credits held, and it would be very convenient for purposes of reference, especially
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as to men who leave college without degrees. The editors of the general catalogue of the University, published in 1891, carried the official abolition of classes so far as to print in one long alphabet- ical roll the names of all the non-graduates of each department, an arrangement whereby the member of '90 precedes the member of '45, and which is both unscientific and inconvenient. It should be noticed that ever since 1860 the annual catalogue has distributed the law students into classes, and that the medical students since 1880 have received like treatment. Of course the academic stu- dents have inofficially preserved as well as they could the class arrangement. .In this the student annuals and the catalogues of the leading fraternities have assisted, so that it is probable the class of every non-graduate since 1880 can be ascertained. Names prior to that date are properly classified in the exceedingly useful "University Book" published by the late Theodore R. Chase, '49.
Of class organizations no record earlier than 1860 remains, although before that date a full set of officers must have been elected annually by each class. In the literary department consid- erable interest attaches to the choice of officers for freshman year, as the election constitutes a kind of introduction to the college public. Thirty years ago the positions of freshman president and freshman orator were regarded as quite important, but the annual supper being the chief exercise of the class as such, the toastmas- tership-now usually given to a fraternity man-is considered very desirable. Following is the list of the freshman academic presi- dents:
'64 W. B. Hendryx,
'83 P. B. Haid,
'84 S. A. May,
'65 F. W. Becker, '66 J. V. Quarles, '67 Richard Montgomery,
'85 W. E. Brownlee,
'86 H. J. Powell,
'68 E. C. Burns,
'87 J. H. Cotteral,
'69 O. J. Campbell,
'88 H. G. Coburn, Jr.,
'70 V. S. Lovell, '71 P. C. Hudson,
'90 Dugald Brown,
'72 L. H. Jennings,
'91 C. D. Warner,
'73 V. M. Spalding,
'92 W. C. Quarles,
'74 G. S. Baker,
'93 P. M. Day,
'75 E. F. Laible,
'94 J. W. Loeb,
'76 S. C. Fuller,
'95 F. F. VanTuyl, '96 W. N. Choate,
'78 G. H. Harrower,
'97 O. H. Tower,
'79 F. D. Haskell,
'98 F. C. Hyde,
'80 B. S. Waite,
'99 Allen Campbell,
'81 F. C. Robbins,
'00 A. P. Cox,
'82 W. D. Robbins,
'OI H. J. Idema.
'77 G. A. Cady,
'89 C. U. Champion,
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The freshman orators in the literary department have been:
'64 J. C. Hart,
'81 T. D. Wilson,
'65 L. W. Halsey,
'82 J. M. Smith,
'66 J. F. Lawrence,
'83 C. T. Wilkins,
'67 Amos Wakelin,
'84 R. M. Dott,
'68 E. L. Walter,
'86 J. C. Shattuck,
'69 H. B. Farwell,
'87 J. H. Patterson,
'70 G. T. Campau,
'88 C. H. Perry,
'71 Joseph McGrath,
'89 Louis Boyle,
'72 M. W. Ward,
'90 H. R. Seager,
'73 H. A. Adams,
'91 E. W. Dow,
'74 F. A. Maynard,
'92 S. B. Grubbs,
'75 J. M. Barrett,
93 Hugo Pam,
'76 D. H. Stringham,
'94 R. A. J. Shaw,
'77 B. H. Colby,
'95 C. M. Holt,
'78 P. H. Hanus,
'99 C. G. Roe,
'79 F. D. Mead,
'oo Charles Frank,
'80 F. G. Allen,
'OI C. VanKeuren.
The toastmasters of the academic freshman classes have been:
'64 N. J. Hotchkiss, '82 J. E. Beal,
'65 J. I. Christiancy,
'83 F. J. Jennison,
'67 Thomas Parker, Jr.,
'84 J. B. Whelan,
'68 Adoniram Carter,
'86 J. C. Shaw,
'69 W. C. Johns,
'87 S. K. Pittman,
'70 Z. K. McCormack,
'88 H. W. Allport,
'71 Horace Phillips,
'90 W. B. Ramsey,
'72 C. C. Worthington,
'91 J. A. Jameson, Jr.,
'73 Henry Russel,
'92 J. B. Miller,
'74 W. H. Wells,
'93 F. L. Evans,
'75 E. W. Jenney,
'95 G. B. Russel,
'76 B. T. Cable,
'96 E. M. Holland,
'77 M. H. Brennan,
'97 Benjamin Townsend,
'78 C. M. Dougherty,
'98 H. W. Standart,
'79 H. T. Morley,
'99 Muir Snow,
'80 A. S. Deacon,
'00 R. C. Apted,
'81 C. H. Kumler.
'OI J. M. Wetmore.
Years have passed since the offices of the academic sopho- more year were regarded as important. Those of junior year were neither sought nor shunned until a brilliant intellect in one of the classes of the seventies conceived that dangerous candi- dates for the positions of senior year could be killed off by electing them to junior places; it being regarded improper to elect the same officers for two successive years. This artless scheme failing, the junior-class offices were bestowed upon worthy men whom the enmity or jealousy of fellows of the baser sort picked out for what had come to be a mark of disrespect. Usually the men nominated felt too indifferent to resist, and the election went by default. Sometimes these contests were embittered by the attempts of one fraternity to elect members of another to the
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objectionable positions. When the class of '82 reached its junior year the faction which had oftenest succeeded in this particular kind of enterprise was worsted, and its men were chosen. How- ever they managed to get even by calling a class election upon insufficient notice; then they resigned, and elected their enemies to the places they had left. The members of '83 after much pull- ing and hauling resolved not to cast a slur upon any of their number, and abolished junior offi- ces. Their immediate successors, VERSITY Eis of the class of '84, went a step further, and by formal resolution declared the offices of junior year to be honorable; but '88 declined to do POUZEY BERIB this, and bestowed its junior presi- MICHIGAN IxVOS dency upon a member of the non- TOUTTONEr secret fraternity. In '87 there were no officers during the third year. A spirited conflict arose in the class of '89 between the fraternity- men and the "Independents ", CLASSof 72 each faction trying to foist the junior presidency upon a member of the opposing crowd, but finally as a compromise a committee of three was elected to exercise executive powers.
As the principal officers of the senior class have parts in the public exercises of class day, their positions have long been regarded as among the most desirable of collegiate honors, the presidency and the oratorship being especially sought. Following are the names of the presidents of the senior academic classes:
'61 J. W. Wood, '62 R. C. Powers, '63 L. J. Brown, '64 W. D. Hitchcock, '79 C. S. Henning,
'76 B. T. Cable, '77 J. S. Ayers, '78 C. M. Daugherty,
'65 J. B. Root, '66 S. T. Chapin,
'81 Wetmore Hunt,
'67 J. O. Andrews,
'82 D. H. Campbell,
'68 E. S. Jenison,
'83 H. A. Mandell,
'69 B. L. C. Lothrop,
'84 J. H. Tyler,
'70 G. E. Dawson, '71 J. A. Mercer, '72 Lester McLean,
'85 T. C. Phillips, '86 W. A. McAndrew,
'87 S. K. Pittman,
'73 J. M. Hemingway,
'88 J. H. Powell,
'74 G. H. Jameson,
'89 W. S. Holden,
'75 C. S. Burch,
'90 W. J. Baldwin,
'80 B. S. Waite,
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'QI R. P. Lamont, '92 P. W. Ross, '93 Hadley Baldwin, '94 D. F. Lyons,
'95 R. R. Lyman, '96 E. B. House, '97 S. W. Smith, '98 F. S. Simons.
The orators of the senior academic classes have been:
'61 J. C. Johnston,
'80 W. W. Cook,
'62 E. F. Uhl,
'8I C. A. Towne,
'63 O. W. Coolidge,
'82 J. F. Gallaher,
'64 E. D. W. Kinne,
'83 W. B. Garvin,
'65 S. B. Ladd,
'84 A. S. Van Valkenburg,
'66 Eleazer Darrow,
'85 J. O. Reed,
'67 G. E. Church,
'86 S. B. Todd,
'68 E. L. Walter,
'87 T. F. Moran,
'69 W. J. Gibson,
'88 Moritz Rosenthal,
'70 Bernard Moses,
'89 E. C. Goddard,
'71 H. B. Hutchins,
'90 H. B. Dewey,
'72 J. F. Dutton,
'91 W. H. Nichols,
'73 H. W. Gelston,
92 W. H. Dellenbeck,
'74 C. T. Lane,
'93 S. C. Spitzer,
'75 B. C. Burt,
'94 W. W. Wedemeyer, .
'76 R. J. Young,
'95 J. S. Handy,
'77 H. C. McDougall,
'96 F. P. Sadler,
'78 F. A. Barbour,
'97 B. H. Ames,
'79 George Wright,
'98 Charles Simons.
The position of poet of the academic senior class has been held by the following:
'61 H. M. Utley,
'So A. J. Potter,
'62 W. E. Nelson,
'81 I. R. Crosette,
'63 N. H. Winchell, '82 F. E. Baker,
'64 S. C. Stacy, '83 Kitty VanHarlingen,
'65 Gabriel Campbell
'84 Elmer Dwiggins,
'66 C. S. Fraser,
'85 Mary B. Putnam,
'67 D. N. Lowell,
'86 Helen L. Osgood,
'6S R. J. Reeves,
'87 A. G. Newcomer,
'69 A. E. Wilkinson,
'88 Elsie Jones,
'70 Edwin Fleming,
'89 Isabella M. Andrews,
'71 R. E. Phinney,
'90 Grace E. Harrah,
'72 W. A. Brooks,
'91 Maud Miller,
'73 A. L. Todd,
'92 Julia Herrick,
'74 T. H. Johnston,
93 A. H. Holmes, '94 J. R. Nelson,
'75 J. B. McMahon,
'76 H. S. Harris,
'95 F. P. Daniels,
'77 W. J. Miller,
'06 Euretta A. Hoyles,
'78 George Horton, '79 E. P. Anderson,
'97 A. M. Smith, '98 C. F. Gauss.
The office of historian has been held by the following academic seniors:
'67 Artemas Roberts,
'63 C. W. Noble, '64 J. C. Hart, '65 Albert Jennings, '66 H. W. Lewis,
'61 E. L. Little, '62 T. H. Hurd, '68 E. L. Hessenmueller, '69 Henry Lamm, '70 W. B. Stevens, '71 J. L. Gillespie, '72 W. T. Underwood,
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'73 Henry Russel,
'86 M. D. Atkins,
'74 Calvin Thomas,
'87 A. G. Hall,
'75 Lorenzo Davis, Jr.,
'88 J. N. McBride,
'76 J. H. Steere,
'89 E. B. Perry,
'77 G. N. Orcutt,
'90 J. A. C. Hildner,
'78 W. J. Jenks,
'91 O. R. Hardy,
'79 I. K. Pond,
'80 C. M. Wilson,
'92 A. J. Tuttle, '93 Jennie Eddy,
'81 Allan Frazer,
'94 F. L. Osenburg,
'82 W. B. Cady,
'95 R. O. Austin,
'83 J. C. Moore,
'96 Annie L. Bacorn,
'84 Hugh Brown,
'97 Oceana Ferrey,
'85 E. E. Powell,
'98 C. H. Farrell.
The office of seer or prophet, a leading honor in the senior academic class, has been held by the following:
'61 T. B. Weir,
'80 C. H. Campbell,
'62 H. D. Follett,
'81 N. A. Stanley,
'64 W. S. Brewster,
'82 Laura Hills,
'65 C. M. Goodsell,
'83 A. M. Brown,
'66 Sidney Beckwith,
'84 Jennie Emerson,
'67 H. P. Churchill,
'85 D. H. Browne,
'68 I. N. Demon,
'86 F. B. Wixson,
'69 T. O. Perry,
'87 Nettie Brown,
'70 C. G. Wing,
'88 Laura O. Tupper,
'72 Hector Neuhoff,
'92 Mamah Borthwick,
'73 Wayne Hayman,
'93 Maude E. Merritt,
'74 H. R. Pattengill,
'94 Marian U. Strong,
'75 G. S. Hosmer,
'95 Mabel Colton,
'76 C. A. Blair,
'96 Florence Halleck,
'77 V. J. Tefft,
'97 Inez C. Perrin,
'78 S. D. Walling,
'98 Florence H. Pomeroy.
'79 F. H. Coe,
In the law department class officers are eagerly sought, and often the contest over them in senior year is long and bitter. When the class of '76 came to choose officers for the finishing year an attempt was made to elect to the presidency a member who had held the same office in the preceding-junior-year. The candidate was the noted "Colonel " Burleigh, who since his gradu- ation has been lawyer, state senator, actor-"everything by turns and nothing long". He was fiercely opposed, the secret society to which he belonged being openly divided upon the question of supporting him. He was defeated. In 1886 the class of '87 occupied the entire day in balloting for orator. Finally W. W. Davis was elected, his success being noticeable because, although a "one-year man " and a member of a fraternity, he overcame the obstacle of a two-thirds' vote rule. Five different meetings were held by the class of '93 before the list of senior officers was completed, the struggle over the position of valedictorian being
'71 S. S. Green,
'89 Fannie Barker,
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particularly exciting. At the fourth meeting ten ballots were taken, none of the candidates being successful. At the fifth meet- ing, after fourteen ballots, a choice was made.
Prior to 1875 the class officers outside of the literary depart- ment are not mentioned in The Palladium, and as there is no other continuous record the lists here presented are not complete. The roll of senior-class presidents in the law department is as follows:
'62 W. D. Wiltsie,
'86 J. W. Hamilton,
'87 E. D. Black,
'63 Hoyt Post, '70 J. B. Steere, '75 W. R. Taggart,
'88 W. S. Frost,
'89 A. F. Wingert,
'76 M. P. Kinkaid,
'go F. W. Moultrie,
'77 G. F. White,
'91 N. A. Phillips,
'78 J. A. Stacy,
'92 A. C. Mackenzie,
'79 Charles Chandler,
'93 A. W. Jefferis,
'80 I. L. Hillis,
'94 R. E. Minahan,
'81 T. R. Shaw,
'95 E. M. Walsh,
'82 B. N. Rooks,
'96 F. L. Ingraham,
'83 S. C. Blake,
'97 W. L. Hart,
'84 Frank Healy,
'98 L. C. Thompson.
'85 E. A. Woodward,
The orators of the senior law classes have been:
'63 Cholwell Knox,
'88 Marion De Vries,
'70 Louis Fockler,
'89 V. O. Hildreth,
'78 H. M. Campbell, '90 J. B. Chaddock,
'79 H. M. Woodford, '91 L. S. Baldwin,
'80 J. H. Bayes,
'92 W. I. Manny,
'81 J. W. Lounsbury, '93 J. W. Wood,
'82 W. F. Paxton,
'94 J. L. Poston,
'83 N. P. Conrey,
'95 L. G. Long,
'84 J. P. Elkin,
'96 E. D. Reynolds,
'85 F. R. Lander,
'97 J. S. Handy,
'86 I. N. Huntsberger,
'98 R. L. Weaver.
'87 W. W. Davis,
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Following are the poets of the senior classes in the law depart- ment:
'63 C. E. Yost,
'86 Lettie Burlingame,
'70 Fleming Rogers,
'87 Margaret L. Wilcox,
'78 H. S. Reed, '88 Charles Alling,
'79 L. K. Mihills,
'89 S. R. Ireland,
'80 D. H. S. McClure,
'90 C. T. King,
'81 L. R. Taylor,
'92 J. H. Whitely,
'82 W. R. Wood, '83 H. M. Oren, '95 S. G. Baker,
'84 Z. F. Wharton, '96 H. E. Northomb,
'85 Mary C. Geigus,
'97 Albert Kocourek.
The historians of the senior classes in the law department have- been the following:
'70 J. W. Wood, '80 T. M. Sloane,
'81 W. G. Sharp, '82 G. W. Allen,
'93 C. E. Dedrick,
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'83 C. I. York,
'91 H. D. Jewell, '92 J. W. Dawson,
'84 T. C. Jones,
'85 H. W. Dickinson,
'93 C. K. Friedman,
'86 J. A. Crawford, '94 L. R. Herrick,
'87 Absalom Rosenberger,
'95 J. W. Ferrier,
'88 P. F. Gosbey,
'96 D. R. Williams,
'89 F. A. Brown, '97 H. N. Hayes, '98 M. H. Abbott.
Prior to 1882 the senior law students seem not to have indul- ged in the luxury of a class prophecy. The list of the seers fol- lows:
'82 O. F. Hunt, '83 F. W. Smith, '84 C. W. Miller, '93 A. J. Hitchcock,
'91 E. R. Sutton, '92 J. G. Erdlitz,
'85 L. A. Springer, '94 D. J. Buckley, '86 F. G. Higgins, '95 G. W. Dayton, '87 E. L. Curtis, '88 Almeda E. Hitchcock,
'96 A. A. Huseman,
'89 O. S. Riggs, '90 R. M. King,
'97 M. W. Babb, '98 P. Y. Albright.
In 1891 the senior class in the law department devised a new office, that of valedictorian. It has been held by the following men:
'91 S. E. Low, '92 J. E. Roberts, '93 Milton Johnson, '94 V. O. Coltrane,
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