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It certainly feels like summer here in the Twin Cities!
Enjoy a few summery clips from Quaere, the law school's student newspaper from 1975-1997. The first two images come from the 1976 June paper, which highlighted Quaere's original board of editors who graduated that year. The final image commemorates the end of the law school softball team's season in June of 1977.
More Clarence Darrow items have arrived! The attorney's traveling trunk, made by J.H. McNamara Trunk Works Co. in Chicago, nicely complements the recent material we received related to Clarence and Ruby's travel. Rivets in the side form Clarence's initials, "CSD," and there is also one travel sticker listing several hotels in the White Mountains in New Hampshire that were owned by Barron, Merrill, & Barron. The donation also included a couple of handkerchiefs embroidered with Darrow's name and several new letters.
We are very grateful for the donation, thanks to a descendant of Darrow's second wife, Ruby!
We recently received an exciting donation to our Clarence Darrow collection from a relative of Darrow's wife, Ruby. The donation includes letters to and from Ruby and an assortment of items related to the couple's travel in 1929 and 1930. Here are a few close-ups of their joint passport that was issued in 1929, which notes that Clarence is accompanied by Ruby and includes a photo of them together.
We've been spending a lot of time transcribing letters, sorting through postcards, and piecing together details about Clarence and Ruby's travel! For more details about the donation, take a look at our blog!
Congratulations, Class of 2026! The Law School's commencement will take place tomorrow, and we wish all the graduates the best as they celebrate their hard work and begin their careers.
As a throwback, enjoy some photos from the graduation of the class of 1993, when a large globe was prominently displayed in front of Northrop Auditorium!
Happy Mother's Day weekend!
In honor of all moms, we're highlighting Kati Sasseville, who became the Law School Council's first woman president in 1972. Her campaign posters urging students to "Vote for Mama Sass" partly referred to the fact that she was a mother of six by the time she was in law school.
Sasseville went on to become the first woman to serve on the Minnesota Public Service Commission, eventually serving as Commission Chair. She remained very active in the legal community, throughout her life running for Congress in the 7th Congressional District, the State House, and the State Senate.
Pictured above are two portraits of Sasseville, along with her presenting the "Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award" to William Lockhart at her graduation in 1973.
Finals are here! Good luck to all, and we hope you're taking care of yourselves as you prepare!
To kick off finals, we pulled out William Fulbeck's "A Direction or Preparative to the Study of Law: Wherein is shewed, what things ought to be observed and used of them that are addicted to the study of the Law, and what on the contrary part ought to be eschewed and avoided," (1620).
Fulbeck (1560-1603) was a bencher at Gray's Inn and published this book in 1600 to offer advice to aspiring law students. One piece of advice given is to never study in the evening, for "if a man study soon after supper, the nourishment is resolved into gross vapors which doe fill the body and are very noisome obstupatives to the senses. For the meate being destitute of heat and spirit, doth ware raw and doth putrify in the Stomach. So that the brain is offended and our study greatly hindered and impeached."
We think you're probably okay studying after dinner, but to each their own. Be wary of those gross vapors!
Happy National Library Week!
Let's take a trip down memory lane and look at the circulation and reference desks of the past! The first photo shows the circulation desk in the Fraser Hall library (1970s), followed by the Mondale Hall circulation desk (1986) and reference office (1990s). Thank you to all of our wonderful librarians!
Today is the Law Library's annual baseball party! These snapshots come from a sheet of negatives from the first event celebrating the start of baseball season in 2004.
April Fools!
This photo from the summer of 1941 shows someone's joke, a car left on the steps of Fraser Hall, the former law school building. Professor Maynard Pirsig, also Dean of the law school from 1948-1955, snapped this great photo of students gathered around it.
Since 2002, the law school student group "TORT" (Theatre of the Relatively Talentless) has put on an annual parody musical entirely made by law students. These photos come from TORT's second production, "Law Wars, Episode IV: Parody is Not An Infringement" (2004). The show often includes law school faculty appearances and special guests, and in this case, Walter Mondale was presented with his very own Fighting Mondales hockey jersey.
Tonight and tomorrow, TORT puts on their 2026 show, "Moot Girls." Break a leg, TORT!
Tonight, the Fighting Mondales, the University of Minnesota Law School's hockey team, take on the University of St. Thomas Fighting Apostles to defend the Golden Gavel!
As a throwback, check out the sports section of Quaere, one of the law school's student newspapers, from March of 1978. Prior to the law school's move to Mondale Hall, the law school's home in Fraser Hall inspired the team's former name, the Fraser Flyers.
The first English woman to print books under her own name!
At our open house last week, we featured several items for Women's History Month, including this 1540 printing of Magna Carta. Elisabeth (Pickering) Redman (1510-1562) was married to Robert Redman, a printer of law books in London. This copy was printed after his death and under Elisabeth's name, "imprinted at London in Fleet Street..at the sign of the George next to Saint Dunston's church" according to the colophon.
Thirteen of Robert Redman's books were printed within nine months of his death, and ten besides this one were under Elisabeth's name.
For anyone yearning for spring as the snow melts, here are some photos of students lounging on the patio and Stein Plaza in 1986! How many people can you spot reading the newspaper?
A flashback from the archives!
This week in 1986, the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) invited civil rights activist and Georgia Senator Julian Bond (1940-2015) to speak at the Law School for a Black History Month event.
Bond co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), served in both the Georgia House and Senate for a total of twenty years, and served as chairman of the NAACP from 1998-2010.
Happy Valentine's Day! At this point, this has become a Clarence Darrow fanpage, so we wanted to feature our collection of Darrow's letters, which includes many love letters to his second wife, Ruby. Transcribing Darrow's handwriting is notoriously difficult, but the first letter here might be Darrow at his most legible. See if you can decipher his letter (transcription below) and check out the last two images if you want more of a challenge.
Maybe this is a sign to dust off your cursive and write a note to someone you love!
Transcription:
July 24
Dear Rube
It is all most bed time + I wish you were here
With love
D.
Two new books came in this week! These copies of Farmington, by Clarence Darrow, join our collection of Darrow's publications. Farmington is a fictionalized account of Darrow's childhood in Ohio, and he believed this was his finest book. Unfortunately, while it went through seven editions, Farmington never found great critical or commercial success.
The green clothbound copy also contains a bit of library history! Pasted inside the front cover is a bookplate for the Tabard Inn Library, a short-lived circulating subscription library founded in Philadelphia that ran from 1902-1910. The library's distinctive revolving bookcases were placed in various businesses, and books could be checked out with a membership or exchange ticket. Over 2,000 stations existed at its peak. Darrow certainly would have been disappointed to see that this copy was never checked out.
When the Law Library purchased the papers of Clarence Darrow in 2004 as the "millionth volume," law students had a lot to say about it (and the large banner of Darrow in the library lobby that still hangs today).
Enjoy these articles that were published in The Bar Review Weekly (1999-2009), an unofficial student newsletter that contained satirical law school updates alongside a weekly review of a local bar. A member of the library staff, "Library Slouch," contributed to the buzz, and we got a good laugh from photoshopped images of students out at a local bar with Clarence.