lecture, on the "Origin of Law," was the first of a series of public lectures to be given under the auspices of the school during the coming year. The remaining lectures will be given by Hon. William Michael Byrne, formerly United States District Attorney for Delaware, and Hon. Francis L. Wellman, of the New York Bar, as follows: Mr. Byrne: "Federal Laws and State Governments." "Our Struggle for Freedom-A Look Backward at Colonial Laws." "Our First Experiment in Nationality-The Articles of Confederation, Their Defects and Failure." "The Cause and Scope of the American Constitution." "The American Constitution and the Test of Time." "The American Constitution and the Test of Force." "Constant Laws and Changed Conditions." Mr. Wellman: "The Trial Lawyer, with Some Practical Suggestions on the Trial of Cases before Juries." The outlook for this year (the school's first year in its new quarters at 20 Vesey St.) is most promising. The registration is 55 per cent. in excess of last year, and every sign seems to indicate that the remarkable growth of this school in its short career is to continue.

Three new instructors have been added to the faculty: Joseph A. Warren, A. B., LL. B., Quasi Contracts and Carriers; Michael F. Dee, A. B., LL. B., Suretyship and Mortgages; Charles Fuller, A. B., LL. B., Do-. mestic Relations.

One of the reasons why the University of Michigan Law School retains its great popularity throughout the country, and why its attendance is so much larger than that of the average law school, is because of the fact that it has always offered its students the best possible instruction and training in actual practice. To do everything possible to be done to strengthen the practical courses, and to fit its students to engage in practice upon leaving the law school, is one of the mottoes of the Dean and the members of the faculty of the school. For a number of years two professors have devoted all of their time to the practice courses, while the other members of the faculty co-operate in the work in various ways. Another professor, with an assistant, devote their entire time and energy in giving systematic instruction in the Substantive Law of Conveyancing, accompanied by a thorough drill in the actual preparation of all important forms of conveyances. For the past three seasons Prof. Roger W. Cooley has been engaged to prepare the Senior students of the Michigan Law School in the use of law books and the investigation of authorities. This year a new elementary course is being given in the school to the first year men by Prof. Evans Holbrook. This course consists of ten recitations; two recitations covering legal bibliography, explaining the sources of the law, the reports, statutes, digests, and law publications

generally; two recitations on courts, showing the manner in which cases are conducted, and how they finally get into the reports; one recitation on the parts of a reported case, covering the headnotes, statement of facts the opinion, the judgment, etc.; and fire recitations on the study and analysis of cases, As a result of the careful attention given to the practical side of a lawyer's training. the Michigan University Law School graduates students far better fitted to start in actual practice than does the average law school. Not only are the students benefited by the policy adopted by the school authorities along these lines, but the school itself has gained a national reputation with the bar of the coun try for turning out good lawyers that is not surpassed by that of any other law school.

Roger W. Cooley, whose fame throughout the law schools is becoming more and more extended, will give his well-known course of instruction on "Law Books and How to Find the Law" to the Senior students in about for ty of the leading law schools this season. Mr. Cooley's schedule up to the Christmas holl. days is as follows: University of Michigan, October 1-17; Detroit College of Law, Octo ber 19-24; University of Wisconsin, October 26-31; University of Chicago, Northwestern University, John Marshall Law School, November 2-14; Indiana University, November 16-21; Cincinnati Law School, November 2325; University of West Virginia, November 30-December 5; Pittsburg Law School, December 7-9; Dickinson College, December 1015; University of Maryland, December 1623. After the holidays Mr. Cooley's work will take him to the law schools of the Dis trict of Columbia, Virginia, New York, Mas sachusetts, Ohio, and several Western states.

The College of Law of the University of Southern California has entered upon its fourth year since its reorganization and becoming a part of the University of Southern California, and opens with an enrollment of over two hundred students. This shows a splendid growth compared with the fifteen students who were enrolled in this college four years ago.

New quarters have been secured in the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, which is a modern office building. located near the center of Los Angeles business section, on the corner of Third and Hill streets. In its present quarters this school is for the first time in its history well locat ed and well equipped with a good library, plenty of well-furnished rooms and rooms which are free from noise and other distrac tions which usually interfere with the recitations of classes in colleges situated in the business section. This law school, which is now one of the largest in the West, has gone somewhat out of the ordinary, having

organized football, baseball, basketball, and tennis teams, which compete with other colege teams on the Pacific Coast. The prosperity of the school is due in a large measure to the efficient management of its Dean, Frank M. Porter, and Its Secretary, Gavin W. Craig, and to the teaching ability of its faculty.

The Cincinnati Law School, which celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary on the 5th day of June last, opened with a good enrollment on September 28th.

The faculty has been slightly changed in the resignation of Professor Henry A. Morrill, who had been a teacher in the school for thirty-nine years. He taught the subject of Constitutional Law, but in June retired on a pension from the Carnegie Foundation, and the subject of Constitutional Law was given to Hon. Judson Harmon, now candidate for Governor of Ohio on the Democratic ticket. Judge Harmon will continue to teach this subject, whether he is elected Governor or not.

The School has attained some additional notoriety by reason of the fact that its former Dean, the Hon. William H. Taft, is the Republican candidate for the presidency, and bis name is still kept on the faculty roll of the School.

Dean James Barr Ames of the Harvard Law School delivered the principal address at the School's seventy-fifth anniversary celebration in June, on the subject of "Law and Morals."

In the application of the school to the study of law in the United States has dragged far behind the nations of Continental Europe. The Universities of Bologna and Paris had great law schools even in the Middle Ages, with courses on general principles assimilating those of to-day. We were influenced by the British tradition, for neither Oxford nor Cambridge has what may be called law schools in the modern acceptance of the terin. On the other hand, the sparsely settled condition of our country, the absence of great cities, the crudeness of our social system, the newness of everything, combined to prerent the evolution of schools of lawyers for lawyers similar to the Inns of Court. Our great lawyers, men of the stamp of Webster and Marshall, acquired their law at the bench, so to speak, and from such instruction as they could receive or obtain in offices. Webster was one of these clerk students in the office of Christopher Gore, then famous among the advocates of his time, and much sought as an instructor of legally minded youth, who had to pay handsome premiums for the privilege of receiving his instruction. Our first law schools were simply expansions of this system, an eminent jurist gathering about him classes, and by his ability developing the

gathering into an institution. The most famous of all these private schools was that founded by Tapping Reeve, at Litchfield, Conn., shortly after the Revolution, which had an existence of half a century.

It had many imitators, but few equals. All these private schools were supplanted by those of the universities, and these in turn seem to be entering upon an era of increased requirements for admission and graduation. This tendency is in part stimulated by the practice of nearly half the states of the Union, which has substituted for the old free and easy method of admission to practice examination by expert boards. The result has been that admittance to the bar has become prac tically equivalent to demonstrating the possession of the degree of bachelor of law. In Massachusetts graduation from a reputable law school is not legally a prerequisite condition for admission to the bar, but the nature of the examination is such that the possession of a diploma is practically requisite to passing. All who have it do not pass, but almost all who pass have it. Despite the increasing rigor of the test there is no diminution of the number of lawyers. The profession is congested in every large city, and the only room is at the top, whither Websters and Marshalls climb. The Websters are rather men who make schools of law than men made by law schools, but who shall not say that the great Daniel would not have appreciated facilities similar to those of the present.-Boston Transcript.

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The law school of the University of Mississippi opened this year with the largest attendance in its history. Its enrollment includes many degree men from the academic schools. The opening address was delivered by the new Chancellor, Dr. Andrew A. Kincannon; his subject being "The Lawyer from the Layman's View." Hon. John Elmore Holmes, of Hernando, Mississippi, has been elected to the chair of Common and Statute Law. Mr. Holmes is an alumnus of the University of Mississippi, and has had successful experience both as a teacher and as a practitioner of the law. He surrendered a lucrative practice to respond to the call of his alma mater, and is doing excellent service in her behalf. In view of the increased attendance upon the school, the law faculty is seriously considering the propriety of extending its course, and asking for an addition to its teaching force.

The fall term of the new Atlanta Law School opened auspiciously. There were present a class of twenty-eight matriculates, with an average age of twenty-five. This school has a thorough two years' course of study. The students attending represent ten different states. Of them four have taken examinations for advance standing and are do

ing the work of this year as their Senior work, with a view to receiving their diplomas in June. The city of Atlanta has a splendid climate, with an elevation of more than 1,000 feet, and is a large legal center. The Atlanta Law School has a splendid future in front of it, and in a short time will be recognized as one of the leading law schools of the South.

The National University Law School of Washington, D. C., announces again this year the largest registration in its history, with many students yet to be heard from, who are kept away from Washington by the exigencies of a presidential campaign. This law school already occupies, in point of numbers, an enviable position among the ten largest law schools in the country. Dr. Haunis Taylor, the distinguished American jurist, begins this year an extended course upon the History of the Common Law, which is based upon his latest and perhaps most important contribution to the literature of jurisprudence. Dr. Taylor gave up the chair on Contracts, which will be filled by Hon. John G. Capers, at one time United States District Attorney, and at present the United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington. The course upon International Law has been enlarged, and will be offered by Brig. Gen. Geo. B. Davis, the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army, recently one of the Commissioners to The Hague Conference, and an author of repute upon that subject, having been for a number of years instructor upon International Law at the United States Military Academy. Professor Charles F. Carusi, the Dean of the law faculty, delivered an address upon the systematic study of the law at the fortieth annual opening of the law school. He has lately published a short treatise on Government Contracts before the Accounting Officers and in the United States Court of Claims, which will be the basis of one of the courses of Federal Administrative Law offered by the school.

Law concerns everybody and ought to interest everybody. There are very few people to whom the profession of the law is not of serious importance. Lawyers do the larger part of making our laws, and the execution of law is wholly their duty. The sole business of law is justice, and that ought to be the sole business of lawyers.

Dealing in Justice, the men of no other profession have such temptations to injustice, and it is particularly important that they should constantly strive to raise the standard of their character. We have thought that we could hardly publish anything more important or really more generally interesting than the "Canons of Professional Ethics" for law

yers, and the proposed lawyers' oath for ad mission to the bar. Who will not read it and in his own mind comment upon it?

It is right that lawyers should have canons of professional ethics set before them, and be required to swear that they will obey them. Members of the other professions do this. At ordination the clergyman makes most solemn engagement publically that be will devote himself faithfully and unselfishly to his spiritual calling. For the physician there has been from ages past the Hippo cratic oath administered on entering his pro. fession. To the physician we commit the care of our bodies, and they should be r quired to feel the tremendous responsibility fop the life or death of their patients. To the clergyman we commit the care of the moral character of the community, that is, of the spiritual, which is the eternal, life of the peo ple; and no oath can be too solemn to im press on them their duties. To the lawyer we commit the constitution and preservation of society and all the rights and wrongs of humanity. No language can be too forcible, no oath too binding, to impress on the young man entering the profession his obligation to worship justice, and with all his might to secure its honor, and not to treat his as a mere money-getting trade.

The temptations of the mere money-getting lawyers are measureless, and they are indicat ed in the canons and the oath. They are temptations to be faithless for the sake of greed, either to the client or to the state. The client may be robbed under form of law, or justice may be robbed by fraud or perjury. It is to prevent such crimes that lawyers' assocl. ations are created, and it is their duty to see that justice is maintained and lawyers disbarred for professional misconduct.

The Indiana Law School has taken pos session of a suite of rooms in the Talbott Block, corner of Pennsylvania and Market streets, Indianapolis, which have been remodeled to meet the demands of the school. The location is only a square's distance from the Court House, from the Federal Building, and in the very heart of the business and profes sional offices of the city. The course of study in the school has been lengthened, corering 32 weeks, exclusive of vacation, with a minimum of 14 hours per week to the Juni or class, and a minimum of 14 hours per week to the Senior class. Additions to the Facul ty this year are: Hon. Fremont Alford, ExJudge of the Criminal Court, Instructor in Criminal Law and Procedure; James M. Berryhill, Esq., Instructor in Sales and Personal Property. Hon. Henry M. Dowling, Ex-As sistant Attorney General, and now Railroad Commissioner for Indiana, formerly an instructor in this school, has resumed his place as instructor in Evidence and Real Property.