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NEW YORK STATE BOARD OF LAW EXAMINERS, 20$ of the German universities, an oral examination precludes any- thing like even a pretence of uniformity. But it was uni- formity of standard that the Board was expected to establish. Finally, oral examinations become impracticable when between four and five hundred applicants present themselves at one examination. I have endeavored to show briefly how we have construed our duty, and the methods that we have employed. The results of the work which the State Board thus far has performed are plain and important. I take pleasure in giving the statistics, realizing that they are not broad enough yet to furnish a safe basis for inferences. The State Board held its first examination in January, 1895. The number of applications received to June, 1896, is 1 1 18. The number of applicants examined is 1051. The number of applicants who were graduates of colleges or universities, 433. The number of applicants who were not graduates of colleges or universities, 652. This number includes 28 whose records of preliminary study are incomplete, and who are included in this class because they are not shown to be graduates. > The number of applicants who had been admitted to the bar in other States, 33. The graduates of colleges and universities came from sixty-nine different institutions. Taking the colleges or universities that sent more than nine applicants apiece, in the order of the number of applicants, except that Harvard and Princeton sent the same number, they are as follows : Yale, College of the City of New York, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Hamilton, Amherst, University of the City of New York, and Williams. . Of the 433 graduates of colleges or universities, 65 had only office experience, 83 had both law school and office experience, while 285 had only law school experience. Of the 652 applicants who were not graduates of a college or university, 192 had had only office experience, 349 had both law school and offfce experience, while 83 had only law school experi- ence. As has been said, there is no record of 28. Of the 1050 examined, 793 had had training in a law school, while 257 had had only experience in an office. Of the 793 who had attended law schools, 116, or about 14 per cent, failed to pass one or more times.