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Show IDE Mil 11' Immigrant Boy Becomes a Law School Professor. Samuel Want Was Penr.ile When He Came From England Ten Years Ago Now an Expert Commercial Lawyer. Ital'lmore, Mil -At twenty-two ean of BKe, Samuel Want, w bo i -aine to this country u jiennih -ss imi lei nut ten yoirs ago, luis been n'piii!id a member mem-ber of the law faculty of the Culver-slty Culver-slty of Maryland. Mr. Want Is also au lisxlhtunl dllior of the American and Knglish Encyclopedia of Law, Law.! em' . purls Annotated and several sev-eral other It gal public, ii ions. He Is Instructor In romnierclal law Ht the easti rn high s. honl. a number of the Mai) land bar. mid is engaged In other activities und labors The appointment by the faculty of tho Cnivcrslty of Maryland, of which Chief Judge Harlan Is dean, Is the result of sheer force of merit and effort on the part of young Want, lie entered the university in HKi? as a freshman ami was graduated from the school In June, I lies. He made the three year regular course In less than 12 months and the facility were lili'k to appreciate the intellect mil and glltid finalities of ti p young man. His rpeclal duties on the faculty Hrc to Instruct students In the selection of hooks and authorities The young professor has had a varied and pie turcs(iie career made interesting because be-cause he ranie to this country pennl-lets pennl-lets nnd without friends at the ag of twelve years from Newcastle, England. Eng-land. Young Want knew a former Englishman En-glishman who lived In Darlington, S. C, and straightway made for that southern town, lie astonished the residents of that city when be ambled from a freight train Into the post office and Inquired for the man whom fiy 1 ii ; irl r Pi f,l I l Mm1 yWk I ,, yilr, .; In- knew while a little lad In England. He secured employment m an office boy In a store and at the same time read his speller and arithmetic at ' eight. At (he age of fourteen the youthful : Want was made manager of the store. Instead of scrubbing the floor and carrying car-rying bundles, he did the buying and had charge of the sales department, lie read much and was determined to become a lawyer. He ranie to Itultl-niore Itultl-niore at the age of eighteen and entered en-tered the Cnlverslty of Maryland. The members of the (lass of 1008 remember well how the spare, studious snd quiet stranger learned the law with astonishing rapidity. Judges Harlan Har-lan and Ktockbrldge, Oorter, Hose, the late John I. I'oe and other eminent Instructors of the university soon saw that the youth was possessed of more than the average ability. It was with considerable pleasure that they saw him receive his diploma, for he had the second highest mark In the class Want is a modest, unassuming young man and strongly objects to talking about his own accomplish ments. He admits that he Is a graduate gradu-ate of the school 'of hard knocks, and this his path In life has been rather rugged, but that Is all he could be Induced In-duced to say. Hp Is a broadly cuhl-ated cuhl-ated young scholar. Hesiib-s having n extensive knowledge of the law, he Is a student or the classics and foreign for-eign languages. He Is an omnivorous reader and absorbs everything Ik; reads. He Is married. |