While you may have your names enrolled among the list of attorneys, and many good, old fashioned friends may call you Esquire, and while you may occupy a seat inside the bar and around the tables there - yet unless you continue to study - unless you appreciate fully the imperious demands of the profession upon its votaries; unless you are able to rise far, very far above mere contentment with your simple admission or a nominal connection with the profession, you will soon find that this title will be about all you will have.
G. Wright, law professor, to the graduating class of the Iowa Law School, 1866 (1 W. Jurist 1)).