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The Cornell University School of Law. gence and success of the students, and upon the high quality of the instruction given. If the fu ture of the school shall equal the promise of its first year, this new department will soon add very greatly to the influence and power of the Uni versity."

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profession so soon or so easily as his collegebred companion. The distinction is recog nized by rule of court in New York, and probably in other States, a liberal allowance of time being made in favor of the college graduate. No law school in the country The attendance of last year was eighty-five, entirely escapes the embarrassment that the senior class numbering forty-one and naturally arises from this difference in prep aration. The majority of law-school stu the junior forty-four. Thirty-six were grad dents are not collegeuated at the last com bred, and the amount mencement. The at of work assigned must tendance of the pres be within their capa ent year is one hundred city to master. This and four, divided as state of things results follows : graduate stu not unfrequently in dents, nine; seniors, the graduate student thirty-six; juniors, concluding that it is fifty-nine. better for him to de The students in every law school fall vote a single year to necessarily and natu vigorous work upon a selected course of stu rally into two some what distinct grades, dy in a law school than the one being made to remain the full time up of those who have and take the degree. enjoyed the advan These difficulties have tages of a collegiate to a certain extent training, and the other been met and solved of those who come at Cornell through the from the preparatory advantages offered by and the common the close connection schools. There are between the School of exceptions, of course, Law and the School HERBERT TUTTLE. but in most cases the of History and Politi extent of a man's pre cal Science. Special liminary training is speedily seen by the inducements are offered to those desiring to supplement their work in law with studies manner in which he masters legal princi ples. Although the students of both grades in the latter school, the courses of which at the time of their admission are equally cover a wide range of subjects, embracing ignorant of the law, yet it is, as a rule, among others the various branches of con very soon apparent that the graduate is ac stitutional and political history, as well as quiring his profession with much greater the history of political and municipal institu facility than his neighbor whose early ad tions. It has been provided, by, resolution vantages have been limited. The young of the Board of Trustees, that any student, man who has come from the common school who, in addition to his course in the School or the academy may in the end make the of Law, shall pursue studies in history and better lawyer and possibly the more learned political science, amounting to at least four man, but he surely cannot get into the hours a week during two years, and shall