An excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter.
THE story of The Lawyers Club, from its origin to the present time, constitutes a record of signal importance in American public affairs.
From its beginning the Club has been a rendezvous for many of our foremost citizens — men of the highest ability — and our guests from time to time have included many of the most distinguished citizens of Canada, Great Britain, France and other countries among our Allies.
Many of the world's greatest thinkers have come to our beautifully appointed club-rooms to address our members and their guests on subjects of current and vital interest, and the speeches of these various speakers have been of the greatest value and stimulus.
During the War our Club, with its many well-manned war- committees, shouldered its share of the nation's burden, and we can well say that we "have done the state some service."
Beginning in a small way the founders of The Lawyers Club, as it grew in membership, have seen — and aided in — the broadening of its activities and influence until it became a living, vital force in the life of the metropolis and of the nation.
In fact the Club today enjoys a national and international prestige of dignity and importance. It has become a forum of public issues. Our lunch-hour addresses have given to the Club a distinction in downtown metropolitan life.
So, for these and other reasons, at the request of the Governors of The Lawyers Club I have prepared for them and the members the following story of the Club's inception and subsequent history....
