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enlightened Province of Ontario in the study its own stores of knowledge. To quote again of the law is at a standstill. Look at the from the Albany Law School circular : ' The neighboring Republic, the decisions of whose students of medicine and surgery can resort courts are beginning to have weight in our to schools in which he can be thoroughly in own; whose schools — and none more than structed in all the principal branches of his those of law — are sending forth men who profession; while the student-at-law enjoys guide the counsels of half a world, who are few opportunities of more than he is entitled able to contend in diplomacy with the sages to obtain by reading in a lawyer's office.'" The writer in the " Canadian Monthly" of Europe; whose suggestions are no longer

lightly considered in did no more than jus the social and political tice to the American countries of Christen Law Schools. Cana dom. It is a common dian lawyers take as failingamong English much pride in the men — a failing repro American Law duced in Canadians — Schools as the Ameri to laugh at the Ameri cans themselves. It is can Republic and her moreover a matter of institutions while pride with them that young. She has now Marshall S. Bid well — reached her majority, described by the writer though at an early age in the "Green Bag" in her efforts were no the article on the Co doubt feeble, and, like lumbia College Law those of the school School as " a lawyer boy, did not compare of most extensive and favorably with those varied legal training, of the graduate. But educated by English we need only turn our methods, and possess attention to the Law ing a constant and un School of Columbia wearied interest in the College in New York promotion of educa City, and the depart tion " — was a member E. DOUGLAS ARMOUR, Q. C ments of Law in the of the Canadian Bar, universities of Har and one of the trustees vard, Yale, and Michigan, to find institutions of the Columbia College Law School. The worthy of our consideration and challenging United States have not much if any advan our imitation, if we are only wise. tage of the Canadians in the race for legal "The Albany School is such an institution learning. The first Law School established as could be established by the Law Society of in the New England States was that of Har Ontario, which should have, to quote from the vard, 181 7, — in point of time only five years curriculum of that school, ' a higher aim than before the organization of " The Advocates' simply teaching young men the law.' It Society " in York (Toronto), to which I should use its best endeavors to teach those have referred in a previous part of this who are intending to enter the profession to paper. Yale does not claim to have had a be lawyers. This is an arduous and difficult Law School previous to 1824, when Mr. Statask. It is giving it a power over its own ples's private school became in some way resources, and enabling it to avail itself of affiliated with the University.

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