Los Angeles
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Biographies
CALIFORNIA
ASSOCIATED COLLEGES
California
Associated Colleges, is a private university of Los Angeles, governed by a
board of trustees, the members of which are as follows: C. L. Welch, dean of the College of Law; H.
E. Rawlinson, member of the board; E. Lavern Addis, superintendent of the
violin division; Raymond G. La Noue, attorney, professor of law; and Elmer I.
Moody, attorney, professor of law. The
administrative officers are as follows:
C. L. Welch, president; H. E. Rawlinson, vice president; and Consuelo M.
Epling, secretary.
The
faculty members of the College of Law are as follows: C. L. Welch, dean, an outstanding attorney of
Los Angeles; Nathan O. Freedman, assistant dean; Albert T. Blanford,
A. B., LL. B.; Samuel P. Block, LL. B., LL. M.; William Christenson, A. B., LL.
B., LL. M.; Martin C. Colvin, LL. B.; Joseph M. Cunningham, A. B., LL. B.; Hon.
Elmer H. Doyle, LL. B., superior court commissioner; Edgar T. Fee, LL. B.; Jean
B. Graham, A. B., M. A., Ph. D.; Hon. Charles E. Haas, A. B., S. J. D., judge
of the superior court; Samuel Leeman, LL. B.;
Elmer I. Moody, LL. B.; John Oliver, LL. B., deputy district attorney; Hon.
Isaac Pacht, L.L. B., judge of the superior court; W.
A. Perilmuter, LL. B., LL. M., Hon. James H. Pope,
LL. B., judge of the municipal court; Gladys Towles
Root, A. B., LL. B.; Charles L. Ruby, LL. B., M. A., Ph. D.; Philip Silver, LL.
B.; F. G. Smith, A. B., LL. B.; and H. A. I. Wolch,
LL. B., LL. M.
The
primary purpose of the college is to give education rather than to prepare for
the bar, though it aims to give an unexcelled training for both the bar
examination and the practice. Law
touches every phase of human life. Its
study affords the utmost of cultural, as it does of practical, value. It is the history of social growth as it is
the manual of business and political principles and the measure of society’s
idealism. No education is complete
without some legal training. The length
of the college curriculum is exceeded by few, if any, American colleges. Intense work is expected of students. The course is difficult by reason of its
requirements. While professors endeavor
to simplify statements of principles and to provide clarifying illustrations,
no attempt is made to shorten hours of study.
The college favors the highest standards of both general and legal
education. The lawyer should be the best
educated individual in his community.
The college aims to avoid artificial standards of measurement and to look
to the actual mental achievement as the qualification for admission to and
graduation from school rather than to a record of academic attendance.
. .believing that one is educated when he is balanced and poised and trained to
think broadly, and is cultured when he has become susceptible to the influence
of fine things.
Day
classes are given at various hours in the morning. Evening classes are held from 7:00 to 9:00 P.
M. and from 6:30 to 8:30 P. M. and at such other hours as meet student
requirements. The semester is made one
week longer than that of most other schools.
Day students complete the law course in three years and evening students
in four years, except that the time may be shortened by taking summer session
work.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 671-672,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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