A meaty contribution from our venerable Northwestern past

Courtesy of the great Dean John Henry Wigmore, who addressed the Law Alumni Banquet in June of 1921 and had this to say:

“I believe in Chicago’s commercial and industrial supremacy . . . As a center of American legal thought, it can thus vastly increase the hold which it now has on world commerce . . . It can become as famous for its law as it has been for its meat, its wheat and its repears.  Just a thousand years ago in a city in the north of Italy there grew up the first and largest law school of the modern world, and there was also devised the most popular and world-wide type of portable meat-food — the city of Bologna.  The fame of that city still rings down the ageas for two things — its sausage and its law school.  Why not also Chicago?”