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The Colle:
OUR years ago. in two small rooms of the Education Building, with inadequate equipment and with but few students, the College of Law began its first session.
Today, in spacious apartments of its own, with a large library and court room; an able faculty; an enrollment of over a hundred students, the college stands unequalled by any law school in Kentucky and unexcelled by any in the entire South.
The students are earnest and ambitious, yet life is not always taken too seriously. A perfect understanding exists between them and the instructors and, thus aided and encouraged, the followers of Blackstoneespecially those of the Senior class are firm believers in the oft-quoted adage:
"1 here's time for work, and time for play."
The opportunities for work, being well known to all who have had Quasi-Contracts and Court Practice, need not be mentioned, while, as to recreations, they are many and diverse. In the Henry Clay Law Society the embryonic statesmen re-
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lieve their minds on burning questions with an eloquence that makes the immortal shade of him for whom the organization was named pale away into insignificance. The Barristers' choir ever and anon insists upon giving vent to sounds of varying pitch and intensity, and many times each day do the dulcet strings of the medley strike the ears of the inoffensive passer-by with a iairing thud. Now and then, dainty footfalls are heard upon the stairway; the brooding atmosphere flees before the burst of sunshine; musty books are flung aside, and everyone with the grace of "ye olden time" hastens to pay homage to the maidens fair.
But as winter wanes, as spring approaches, as the day of Commencement draws nigh, a strange foreboding steals into the heart of the jaunty Senior and a thoughtful expression creeps into his erstwhile carefree countenanceall born of the realization that but a few months separate him from the cruel world where, at the entrance to the legal arena, old and experienced lawyers lick their chops in sanguine anticipation of his coming, murmuring meanwhile to themselves, ""What a tender and juicy meal he will make."
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