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203 NEW YORK STATE BOARD OF LAW EXAMINERS. 203 If the applicant be a college graduate, he must have pursued his study of law after graduation. " Applicants who are not graduates of a college or university shall, before entering upon the clerkship or attendance at a law school, or within one year thereafter, have passed an examination, conducted under the authority and in accordance with the ordi- nances and rules of the University of the State of New York, in EngHsh Composition, Advanced English, first year Latin, Arith- metic, Algebra, Geometry, Civics, and Economics, or in their substantial equivalents as defined by the rules of the University." — Rule V. Subdivision 3. By this rule the Regents of the University are permitted to accept as an equivalent either a Regent's Diploma or a certifi- cate that the applicant has completed successfully a full year's course of study in a college or university, or that he has com- pleted satisfactorily a three years' course of study in any insti- tution registered by the Regents as maintaining a satisfactory academic standard. The attendance in a law school must have been for two entire school years of not less than eight months each. In computing the period of clerkship in an oflfice a vaca- tion actually taken, not exceeding two months, is allowed as part of the year. The rules provide for admission to the bar in New York, on motion, of any person who has been admitted to the bar in another State and practises there in the highest court of law, or " who, being an American citizen and domiciled in a foreign country, has received such diploma or degree therein as would have entitled him, if a citizen of such foreign country, to practise law in its courts." Persons who have been admitted to the bar in another State, and remained therein as practising attorneys for at least one year, may be entitled to the examination after a period of law study of one year within this State. The object of the Legislature was to establish a high and uni- form standard for admission to the bar; and to secure that object the members of the State Board of Law Examiners have given their best thought and much labor, realizing that the success of the new system must depend largely on the manner in which it should be administered. The task of one who examines applicants for admission to the bar may differ from that of the professor who examines his students on the work they have done. The examiner for ad-