The University of Wisconsin
Law School
inw'icho I nhlth strel of ,I rmake it ineixpnit to
imemorate n quatI thitIs ignificant miletone in it -hi-tory,
6 1i itting that the raduate and friends of the school recall its
huIble inningt it, sttad piogress in itanclirck, scholarship, and
n nmint  We rproud of the long lineo graduatcs and formerstud-
ent-, "hoha e tor Ia orth\ part inth uhlktnlingof theconmaunities
in which thei hae lited, and of tshe e  arigen inber iho have played
 distinguished piat in tihe juJicial and piliticil hiinryn not onl of our
own state, but of the rniddle and far we st  It is well to recall that ip
to ]l1l, when the penod of rapid griwth began at the unaier-it. a
majorits (If the gradlatts of the uniesits held law degrees  Tlie
great industinal deeliopenit of the lat decade has been reflected in
the rapid groSih of the scientific and economic courses of the univer-
sit\, until nnw the studIentS preparing for the industrial pursuits
greatly outnumber those in law
It must not lit assumed that liw schools are Sin the decline In
truth, the past fifteen ear, have witneseld tremoendous strides in
legal education, niot onl in scope and mnthod- of instruction, but in
equnpmoentas nell. the las school are on tie threshold of a great
and useful future, for whateverthe outcome of tile present iar, we
can he sure of this, that it will result in protound changes of an eco-
nomnic and social character, which will mean correiponding radical
changes in ouir legal institutions through wihich social and economnic
changes Must he expiresId  If we are to progress, we must have a,
leaders men trained inot onlv in the social sciieces, but in law as well
It is this necel for trained men, whocan think- straight and see far, who
make knowledge a stepping stone and not a net, that gives the oppur-
tunitV to the schools of law"
Legal training doe, not fit men for sar; indeed, the lawter- iiirk
is tihe very antithesi of the S1l1iTrs Jun-tice through lI  Is theim ila-i
of the lancr, and the goal toward which ciniization has beeni trug-
gling since its Law- Neither can the law school, forge their instru-
ments of peace Into Lhe weapon, of war, nut law-e- can and will
 serve on the field of war, Thousands of oung men from the law
schools, or men just starting on theirt professional career, hate entered
their countrv s sertIce, and the cla- rnoom of esert las school in tle
Nation is depleted  These men are ofering their Ine that the Anglo-
Sixon ideals of government ind lasw na live, and the doctrine of
brute force ma\ perish. May the- he spared the supreme sacrifice
Mas thes return 'to greet the season when men hall live by reason,
conscious that they fought not to conquer but to enthrone Justice
Ma they take up their civil life again in the belief that what is worth
dsing for is worth living and 'acifcing for. Ma, the courage of the
field gie place to tle courage of the forum. Min the% realize that
tine courage and self sacirifice that shields the innocent or
for thle right at the price of calumn-, is anole a-n  feat of armn,
splenidid though it ma\ Ie"

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