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18 Howard L.J. 1 (1973-1975)
Professor Frank D. Reeves - Towards a Houstonian School of Jurisprudence and the Study of Pure Legal Existence

handle is hein.journals/howlj18 and id is 19 raw text is: In Memoriam: Professor Frank D. Reeves Towards a Houstonian School of Jurisprudence and the Study of Pure Legal Existence J. CLAY SMITH, JR.* You ask us, . . . why we are exceedingly attached to this man. Because he supplies us with food whereby our mind is re- freshed after this noise in the forum, and with rest for our ears after they have been wearied with bad language. Do you think it is possible that we could find a supply for our daily speeches, when discussing such a variety of matters unless we were to cultivate our minds by the study of literature; or that our minds could bear being kept so constantly on the stretch if we did not relax them by that same study?t Professor Frank D. Reeves was a noble lawyer and teacher of law whose death came, while he fought as a legal infantryman in the trenches against interposition and nullification in order to achieve so- cial, political, and judicial change; he used as his weapon the Rule of Law and an inestimable will power to conquer metaphysical objects which have for decades negated the possibility of a pure le- gal existence for the black citizenry of America. His legal career as a law teacher and as a lawyer was distinguished by his patience, by his unique ability to analyze the case, and by his recognition that civil rights planning by the private bar and scholars would provide a base from which jurisprudents could analytically assess the future of race relations in every decision-making arena in order to further as- sess and to reasonably predict when black people might expect to participate in the American Dream-free from the blemishes of ra- cial discrimination which mar its visage-and thereby achieve a pure legal existence. These qualities are merely supplemental to the broader aspects of the jurisprudential thought that Professor Reeves, * Adjunct Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law. t D. McKAY, SELEc'r ORATIONS OF MARcus TuLLIUs cIERo 126-27 (1895).

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