Antioch School of Law WELCOMING ADDRESS to the Incoming Class by Edgar S. and Jean Camper Cahn The Deans alvered at ‘Ceremonial Courtroom ‘The United States District Courthouse {or the District of Columbia Washington, D.C. 6 Soptember 1972Welcome to the Antioch School of Lew. The day is finally here. You are here. Listening to the noises in the hall yesterday, it was hard to tell who is more excited. You. The faculty. The adninistra- tive officers. The secretarial staff. Or the two of us. This day is very special, And to us, after sifting through over a thousand applications, you stand out as a unique very wonderful and precious group of human beings. When the accreditation team from North Central came for an inspection a fey months ago, we were asked what was our sense of the kind of student body we would have; what would be your dis- tinguishing characteristic, We did not point to the diversity-- though we could have; or the maturity -~ which ve could have; or the richness of practical experience and service. The answer that we gave was not precise, but it was true to our sense of you then. It is no less true now. We said: If someone had asked us a year ago which student body would we pick to have court decisions analyzed and disected with surgical precision, we would probably have said try the Harvard student body. ‘That is their distinctive forte.