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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 6, 1964
Yale Prof Remembers KU
By Suzy Tichacek
His tone reminiscent and his spirit radiates through his words, a 90-year-old law scholar will write his final article for the next issue of the Kansas Law Review.
Arthur L. Corbin, professor emeritus from Yale University, will be one of the authors of contributing articles to the Kansas Law Review.
In one of his letters to John Johntz, Wichita third year law student and editor of the Law Review, Prof. Corbin said: "In asking me for a contribution, you probably knew that I have just passed my 90th birthday anniversary; and you may have known that I graduated from KU in 1894, now over 70 years ago."
"YOU PROBABLY did not know the depth of my feelings toward my native state and my Alma Master. They are in fact such that, in
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spite of age and impaired eyesight, I was not able to refuse your request (for an article)."
Prof. Corbin explained that on May 18, he was ordered by his doctor to give up his reading of case reports and his writings because of his failing eyesight.
The article Prof. Corbin has written for the Law Review is entitled, "Sixty-Eight Years at Law." It states some of his major conclusions as to legal education and the nature and growth of law.
Prof. Corbin enrolled as a freshman at KU in 1890, not yet 16. He graduated in 1894 with an A.B. degree. In his article he said: "In 1896 I decided to study law, expecting to enroll in the Kansas Law School in the following year. After consultation with the dean, "Uncle Jimmy Green," I purchased and read all of the text books then in use in the first year class. Although I never attended a class and never discussed a legal problem with him, Uncle Jimmy always treated me as one of "his boys."
AFTER GETTING HIS LL.B. from Yale in 1899, Prof. Corbin practiced law in Cripple Creek, Colo.
(Jimmy Green) was not a legal scholar, but he had a big heart."
"In 1903," Prof. Corbin continued in his letter, "Uncle Jimmy Green offered me a position on the faculty; but I preferred to accept the call to Yale at a smaller salary. He
Prof. Corbin spent 40 years on the Yale law faculty. Now retired from the Yale Law School, he was honored by the school by being called the man who has done more than any other to build the Yale Law School.
Besides his many articles in the Yale Law Journal and other law magazines, Prof. Corbin is the author of a nine-volume treatise on contracts. In 1961 he presented the KU law library with a gift of the nine-volume set.
ALSO AMONG HIS honors, Prof. Corbin held the Sterling Research professorship at Yale, 1927-28. In 1951 he was cited the highest honor anyone can get from KU. He was presented with the Distinguished Service Award.
In one of his letters Prof. Corbin reminisces about his earlier days at KU. "As a high school boy in 1889, I saw the first football game played in Lawrence between KU and Baker. It ended in a half riot.
W. H. Carruth, for whom Carruth-O'Leary was named, was not the only well-known KU personality Prof. Corbin knew. Also mentioned in his letters was his sister, Alberta L. Corbin, who graduated in 1893. She became a Professor of German at KU and later Corbin Hall was named after her.
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