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199 HARVARD LAW REVIEW. VOL. X. NOVEMBER 25, 1896. No. 4. TWO YEARS' EXPERIENCE OF THE NEW YORK STATE BOARD OF LAW EXAMINERS.^ 1"^HE invitation which so kindly was extended to me to prepare this paper was accepted with much hesitation, and princi- pally because of our Secretary's assurance that the experience of the New York State Board of Law Examiners, short though it has been, might be of use to the profession in other States. earth." At Lincoln's Inn Hall, on October 28, 1895, at the opening of the course of lectures under the Council of Legal Education, the subject of the address included the requirements for admission to the bar both in England and the United States, and the speaker was the Lord Chief Justice of England.^ It is a high duty that rests upon the State to see to it that, in the administration of justice^ none but men of learning and char- acter shall be permitted to bear a part, and among the true leaders of the bar there has ever been that " chastity of honor which felt a stain like a wound." 1 A paper read at Saratoga, August 21, 1896, before the Section on Legal Education of the American Bar Association. 27
 * Justice, Sir," said Webster, " is the great interest of man on
 * The Law Times, vol. 100, p. 16.