The Junior Historian, Volume 15, Number 3, December 1954 Page: Front Inside
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THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
1897-THE OLDEST LEARNED SOCIETY IN TEXAS-1897
President :
CLAUDE ELLIOTTVice-Presidents :
PAUL ADAMS
RALPH STEEN MERLE DUNCAN
FRED R. COTTENDirector :
H. BAILEY CARROLL
Cor. Sec. and Treas.:
MRS. CORAL HORTON TULLISTHE JUNIOR HISTORIAN
Published by
The Texas State Historical Association
Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center
Box 8011, University Station,
University of Texas, Austin 12, Texas
Editor :
H. BAILEY CARROLL
Associate Editors:
DORMAN H. WINFREY CHESTER V. KIELMAN
"No man is fit to be entrusted with the control of the PRESENT
who is ignorant of the PAST, and no People who are indifferent
to their PAST need hope to make their FUTURE great."Issued six times during the school year in: September, November, December, January, March, and
May. Regular subscription $2.00; club subscriptions (five or more to Chapter members) $1.50
each. Entered as second-class matter February 21, 1945, at the post office at Austin, Texas, under
the Act of March 3, 1879.
HISTORY AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION
by JUSTICE WILL WILSON*A client wants his lawyer to be both
a courageous man and a wise man. This
quality of wisdom depends, in part,
upon a proper evaluation of past ex-
perience. You ought not to make the
same mistake twice. And you should
learn from the mistakes of others. One
sure way to broaden your wisdom is by
the constant study of the past. To pre-
pare yourself for the practice of law,
you should constantly read biography
-especially the biographies of people
who have lived and worked in the law.
From this you will acquire your stand-
ards of value. If your mind is stored
with an intimate knowledge of the lives
of our past lawyers and judges, you
will be surprised how often they volun-tarily step forward to make a decision
for you. This might be called precedent,
but that word hardly describes the men-
tal process. When you have a decision
to make, it is comforting to know how
John Marshall or John Adams or Jim
Hogg or Charles Evans Hughes or
Brandeis handled a similar problem.
And you will be surprised at the depth
of perception the study of history will
give to your daily decisions.
*Recently Justice Will Wilson was selected
to make the response of the Texas Supreme
Court at a ceremony swearing in the new
lawyers just being admitted to the bar. A
portion of his thoughtful remarks regarding
history is reproduced here for the Junior
Historians.
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