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"It was really quite a fight,' said my "Two men got into an altercation; friend. one hit the other, and a crowd at once gathered. I happened to be in the front row of the onlookers, and I was genuinely alarmed to see the fellow who had been struck seize A heavy cane from a bystander and rush upon his assailant with murder in his glance. I felt sure there would be a killing; that man meant to shed human blood; and, as I was certain that he would knock out his enemy's brains, I dashed between the combatants.'

"All this while," continued Mr. Bonaparte, "my friend's ten year old son had been listening with appreciation, and now his eyes blazed with admiration of his father.

"'You thought he'd strike the man's brains out?' the boy demanded.

"I did indeed, my son,' replied his parent, "And you ran in his way, father?' "I did, my son.'

"The boy fairly swelled with pride.

"'I tell you,' he said, 'he couldn't knock any brains out of you; could he, father?"

George Zahm, for a number of years a member of the faculty of the Yale University Law School, has recently become connected with the Brooklyn School of Law. About a year ago Mr. Zabm engaged in practice in New York City, retaining his relationship with the Yale Law School by going to New Haven at the end of each week for the purpose of giving instruction in that school. While Mr. Zahm will continue to do some special lecture work in the Yale Law School, the bulk of his teaching hereafter will be in the Brooklyn Law School. Although a young man, Mr. Zahm has the reputation of being one of the most capable law school teachers in the country, and his connection with the Brooklyn Law School will in many ways prove of great benefit to that well-known institution.

The second annual summer session of the law school of the University of Wisconsin was held this past summer. Prof. Harold D. Hazeltine, of the University of Cambridge, assisted the members of the regular faculty in the work of instruction. The attendance in the summer school was greatly Increased over that of the preceding year, while the results in every way were very satisfactory.

The Law Department of the University of Arkansas opened on September 21st with a large attendance. This law school is fast coming to be known as one of the leading institutions of legal learning in the South. The faculty has been strengthened this year by the addition to its membership of J. K.

Riffel, of the well-known firm of Riffel, Dunaway & Cox, of Little Rock. Mr. Riffel is scheduled to take charge of the course on Partnership in the law school.

The New York Law School is now occupying its new quarters in the five upper stories in their own building at 174 Fulton street, New York City. The fine new office building built by the school consists of eleven stories, overlooking St. Paul's churchyard, thus insuring good light, which is considerable of an asset in the downtown part of New York. Last year the New York Law School had 978 students enrolled, of whom 267 were college graduates; the school offering both day and evening sessions.

The law teacher realizes, more keenly probably than any one else, because his attention is constantly challenged to the fact, that as a rule the strongest students in law are those who have had an extended and systematic preparatory training. It stands to reason that this should be so. The law is an intensely intellectual profession, and the successful study of our jurisprudence requires the mastery and control of one's intellectual processes and the development of one's reasoning faculties to a degree that is ordinarily attained only after long disciplinary study. Of course, in dealing with this problem of preliminary requirements, we must recognize -and the law teacher certainly does, for it is not infrequently brought to his attentionthat some men are fitted by nature for the study and practice of the law, and that with such men the matter of preliminary training is of minor importance. The intellectual grasp and the attendant power of lucid and logical statement that thorough and systematic and extended preliminary training is supposed to give are with such men natural endowments. But the law teacher knows that such cases are exceptional, and that, while standards may, within proper limits and subject to proper restrictions, be waived to meet the occasional exceptional case, it is with the average, rather than with the exceptional, man in view that they should be determined upon and fixed.-H. B. Hutchins, Dean University of Michigan Law School.

A new law school has been organized in Chicago, called the Lincoln College of Law. The new school is affiliated with St. Ignatius College, and its courses, faculty, and students will be under the guidance and direc tion of that institution. The law school is located in the Ashland Block; class sessions being held from 6:30 to 9:00 p. m. daily, except Saturdays. William Dillon is

the dean of the school, while Arnold D. McMahon is the Secretary.

Chester G. Vernier has been appointed Professor of Law in the University of Missouri. Last season Mr. Vernier taught in the University of Indiana School of Law, taking the place of Prof. Beeler, who was on a year's leave of absence. Mr. Vernier is a graduate of the Liberty Indiana High School, of Butler College (A. B., 1903), University of Chicago (Ph. D., 1904), University of Chicago Law School (J. D. cum laude, 1907). Mr. Vernier will teach the subjects of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Domestic Relations in the University of Missouri.

Henry Wilber Humble has recently been appointed to a position on the faculty of the University of Kansas Law School. This will be Mr. Humble's first experience as a teacher of law. Mr. Humble is a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School, having taken his LL. B. degree (first honors) in 1904. He has been a student in the University of Chicago, Cornell University, and in the University of Cincinnati, receiving his A. B. degree from the latter institution. Mr. Humble is the author of several legal articles that have recently been published in the American Law Review.

The Detroit College of Law opened on the 21st day of September, with the largest enrollment in its history. Judge Brooke, Professor of Torts in the school, has been nominated for Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan by the Republican party. He has resigned his professorship, and will be succeeded by Mr. John C. Bills, attorney for the Pere Marquette Railroad.

"You say you met the defendant on a street car, and that he had been drinking and gambling," said the attorney for the defense during the cross-examination.

"Yes," replied the witness.

"Did you see him take a drink?" "No."

"Did you see him gambling?" . "No."

"Then how do you know," demanded the attorney, "that the defendant had been drinking and gambling?"

"Well," explained the witness, "he gave the conductor a blue chip for his car fare, and told him to keep the change."

The John Marshall Law School began its tenth year September 9th. The attendance this season, including the post-graduate class,

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numbers 225 students. The school contera. plates removal to larger quarters next spring At the last Illinois bar examination a John Marshall students were examined and 19 passed.

William L. Foushee, of the Richmond, Va., bar, has been engaged to give instruction on the subjects of Bailments and Carriers, Wil« and Constitutional Law this season in the Richmond College of Law. Mr. Foushee is associated in practice with John Garland Pol. lard, author of Pollard's Annotated Virginia Code.

A certain prominent lawyer of Toronto is in the habit of lecturing his office staff from the junior partner down, and Tommy, the office boy, comes in for his full share of the admonition. That his words were appreciat ed was made evident to the lawyer by a con versation between Tommy and another office boy on the same floor which he recently overbeard.

"Wotcher wages?" asked the other boy. "Ten thousand a year," replied Tommy. "Aw, g'wan!"

"Sure," insisted Tommy, unabashed. "Four dollars a week in cash an de rest in legal advice."

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Harry A. Bigelow, of the University of Chicago Law School, who was on leave of absence during 1907-08, has returned to the school and resumed his courses this year.

Prof. Sherman Steele, of the Notre Dame Law School, has accepted the position of Professor of Constitutional Law in the St. Louis University.

Reports come from the Drake University College of Law, Des Moines, Iowa, showing an increase of about 20 per cent. in the attendance of the school over that of last year.

The excellent work of a very successful criminal lawyer secured the complete exoneration of a man who had been arrested for stealing a pair of trousers, and he was told to step out of the dock. The prisoner did not stir. Again he was told to step out, but he did not move. His counsel went over to him and asked:

"Why don't you step out, you've been acquitted?"

"I can't," he replied in a stage whisper that was heard throughout the court room, "the owner of the pants is out there and I've got 'em on."

Herbert McCormick, the brother of Medill McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, is a lawyer, and when he was arrested some time ago in one of the suburbs of Chicago for speeding his automobile he decided to try his own case.

The chief witness was the policeman who made the arrest. He testified that McCormick was going thirty miles an hour.

"How do you know?" asked McCormick. "I timed you."

"Are you an expert timer? Have you ever timed sports?" persisted McCormick. "No," replied the policeman solemnly, “only them that rides in automobiles."

"I suppose," said the stranger within the gates, "the lid is on all games of chance in this town."

"Don't you believe it, stranger," rejoined the native. "The marriage license office is still wide open."

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